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Comment by pfdietz

4 months ago

The energy needed to separate deuterium is many orders of magnitude less than the energy liberated by fusion of the deuterium.

The fuel cost is small compared to fission, but note that even with fission fuel is a small fraction of the total cost, so this doesn't save much.

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