The ststement below underline the one significant fear I have about this technology. Yes, it can explode...but that amounts to a lightening bolt multiplied by whatever you think the air and water will do...Bad yes, but dealable. But the elements are anothing thing. Later.

As an isotope of hydrogen it is easily incorporated into water, making the water itself weakly radioactive. With a half-life of 12.4 years, tritium remains a threat to health for over one hundred years after it is created, as a gas or in water. It can be inhaled, absorbed through the skin or ingested. Inhaled tritium spreads throughout the soft tissues and tritiated water mixes quickly with all the water in the body. Th...

The ststement below underline the one significant fear I have about this technology. Yes, it can explode...but that amounts to a lightening bolt multiplied by whatever you think the air and water will do...Bad yes, but dealable. But the elements are anothing thing. Later.

As an isotope of hydrogen it is easily incorporated into water, making the water itself weakly radioactive. With a half-life of 12.4 years, tritium remains a threat to health for over one hundred years after it is created, as a gas or in water. It can be inhaled, absorbed through the skin or ingested. Inhaled tritium spreads throughout the soft tissues and tritiated water mixes quickly with all the water in the body. The AAAS estimated that each fusion reactor could release up to 2x1012 Bequerels of tritium a day during operation through routine leaks, assuming the best containment systems, much more in a year than the Three Mile Island accident released altogether. An accident would release even more. This is one reason why long-term hopes are for the deuterium-deuterium fusion process, dispensing with tritium.