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Volume 3

The Tritium Imperative

Architectures for Sustainable Nuclear Fusion Fuel Cycles

The greatest hurdle to clean fusion energy isn't the plasma—it's the fuel.

Strategic Objectives

• Master the nuclear physics of lithium-neutron interactions.

• Explore the engineering of solid and liquid breeding blankets.

• Understand advanced tritium extraction and purification technologies.

• Analyze the safety and containment protocols for radioactive isotopes.

The Core Challenge

While fusion promises limitless energy, the world lacks a natural supply of tritium, requiring complex breeding systems that don't yet exist at scale.

01

The Tritium Supply Crisis

02

Foundations of Fusion Nucleonics

03

The Lithium Gateway

04

Neutron Economy and Transport

05

Breeding Blanket Fundamentals

06

Solid Breeder Architectures

07

Liquid Metal Blankets

08

The Role of Neutron Multipliers

09

Molten Salt Breeders

10

Tritium Extraction Systems

11

Permeation and Containment

12

The Inner Fuel Cycle

13

Materials Science in High Flux

14

Magnetohydrodynamics in Liquid Metals

15

Isotope Separation Technologies

16

Radioactive Waste Management

17

Safety and Proliferation

18

Computational Modeling of Breeding

19

Lessons from ITER

20

The DEMO Reactor and Beyond

21

The Future of Bred Fuel

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