Talk:Helium-3

Humans did not invent Tritium

The article implies that all helium-3 is either primordial or man-made. Every time a Uranium fissions it creates neutrons, that usually get absorbed by a nucleus. Sometimes that nucleus is a deuteron. Cosmic rays can also produce He-3 or tritium through a rather long list of interactions in addition to hitting a lithon. All of this is incredibly obvious and should be mentioned in a discussion of the origins of Helium-3 on planet Earth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Octaazacubane (talk • contribs) 03:44, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Contradiction

From the 'Manufacturing' section:

"Commercial use of fusion reactors would require tens of tons of helium-3 each year to produce a fraction of the world's power."

From the 'Lunar supplies' section:

"Accordingly, helium-3 seems less likely than other reactants for use in fusion power generation"

I've amended the sentence from the manufacturing section to make it clear that helium-3 is only one of several possible fusion fuels by changing it to:

"If commercial fusion reactors were to use helium-3 as a fuel, they would require tens of tons of it each year to produce a fraction of the world's power."

I'm pretty sure this is the correct resolution of this contradiction.

Disgusting, unsightly typo

I had to remove an apostrophe from "it's" to turn it into the correct "its".

How come this has been ignored for so long? Are you all illiterate?