An aqueous slurry of heavy water and lithium containing solids was examined to assess its merits as the tritium breeding, neutron attenuating, and heat removing portion of a first generation D-T fusion reactor. The results of experimentation and a related computer study are reported here. The numerical and experimental work done indicates a heavy water slurry can breed and retain within the solid particles sufficient tritium to fuel a D-T reactor. Experimental results reported here indicate that the LiF will retain tritium for a period of several days at room temperature. Tritium recoil losses were up to 30% higher than predicted. Tritium release rates from the heated solids were low up to 525°C, but increased rapidly above that temperature.