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Despite the emergence of new projects, technologies, and commercial ventures, the rate of actual deployment worldwide has been relatively slow—but not necessarily for the reasons people might think.
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It is proposed that the ratio of deuterium-tritium (D-T) to neutron producing deuterium-deuterium (D-D) reactions (RDT/RDD) be used as a diagnostic of the fuel density-radius product (⟨ρR⟩) for initially tritium-free advanced fuel inertial confinement fusion targets, For deuterium targets, RDT/RDD ≈ 0,08 ⟨ρR⟩ for fuel ⟨ρR⟩ 0.1 g/cm2. For fuel of larger values of ⟨ρR⟩, thermalization of fusion product tritons in the fuel greatly alters the dependence of RDT/RDD on target characteristics.
