Can a fusor produce the high energy neutrons required to make lithium fissile?

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Alec Fadness
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Can a fusor produce the high energy neutrons required to make lithium fissile?

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I also read:
Lithium-6 has a very high neutron cross-section (940 barns) and so readily fissions to yield tritium and helium. It has been the main source of tritium for both thermonuclear weapons and future controlled fusion
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Could lithium fission within a fusor be used to improve the efficiency of a fusor through the production of tritium? From what I understand, d-d reactions are more difficult to achieve than d-t reactions.
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Re: Can a fusor produce the high energy neutrons required to make lithium fissile?

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You nor we can get the highly radioactive tritium to make this fusion reaction. It is illegal for private citizens to have tritium in amounts that can do fusion.

We do the deuterium-deuterium, (D-D) fusion which does fusion and produces a fast neutron of 2.45 mev.
Lithium must be enriched in lithium 6 via isotopic removal of the far more prominent lithium 7 found in all lithium, Lithium 6 is only a small part of natural lithium.

Our fusion reactors could not do this reaction as the fast neutron is not at 17mev and we cannot access enriched Lithium 6.

If you read the FAQs you would know a lot more about our fusion reaction. Also if you really dig into the data you would realize the absolute impossibility of doing fusion that can produce net electrical power even in giant reactors like the ITER yet to be fired up in France. Countless billions spent on ITER and it will fail to produce net energy out and is planned not to produce 1 watt of electrical output energy. I fear you will never live so long as to see one watt of fusion based electrical energy flow from your wall outlet.

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