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Your calculations don’t mention energy (J), only power (MW in your post). Fuel supply and cost correlate with energy produced, not power.

Parent post suggests that tritium is a fixed cost, more like a construction cost than a fuel cost. We can’t answer this question without a lot more information. We’d need to know how much tritium is needed to reach the point the reactor breeds more than it consumes, if at all.



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