Which risk dramatically increases in fusion reactors lacking sufficient tritium breeding?

💡 Explanation

Fuel starvation increases because tritium fuel must be continuously replenished in deuterium-tritium fusion; tritium breeding criticality results from increased neutron flux leading to the *neutron activation* mechanism; therefore the reactor halts due to a lack of fuel, rather than structural damage or instability.

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