
Will the first commercial fusion reactor be D-T?
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https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/318390/why-do-fusion-cross-sections-drop-after-a-certain-temperature
Anything other than D-T requires >8x higher temperatures to reach the same reactivity, resulting in orders of magnitude more radiative losses.
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