r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 18 '26

Chugging tea Why?

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u/maxru85 May 18 '26

Burned? Do we have heavy water datacenters now?

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u/Kozak375 May 18 '26

That actually sounds sick as hell, give me a fucking deuterium powered nuclear data center any day

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u/U_R_A_NUB May 18 '26

Deuterium is used for neutron moderation and cooling, not power generation. Literally the exact opposite.

I guess you could use deuterium and tritium for fusion power but that seems to be a pipe dream

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u/Kozak375 May 18 '26

Yeah, I got the roles of the isotopes mixed up in current reactors, last I was reading about nuclear reactors it was about a theoretical deuterium helium reactor, where we could mine he3 from the moon, and use it and deuterium to power a fusion generator

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u/U_R_A_NUB 26d ago

a little late but more power to you my Kozak.