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[Spider-Man 2] How exactly would Doc Ock’s fusion reactor be any effective even if it worked the way he intended it to work?

Even if we ignore all of the problems it displayed throughout the movie(pulling metallic objects into itself, realising plasma beams all over the place, nearly blowing up New York etc) I really don’t understand how it could be any effective even if it work the way Doc intended it because of one thing: It requires a very finite resource to work.

Doc said that he needed Tritium to fuel the reactor and it is statuses that within the movie’s universe only about 25 pounds of it on the whole planet. 

If that’s the case how great could this reactor really be? 

Given how finite this resource is it would mean that it wouldn’t be possible to build that many of these reactors. Meaning that you wouldn’t be able to build one reactor for every major city etc.

Also what if you had to shut down the reactor for maintenance of something? Would the Tritium be reusable again? It didn’t look like it when Spider-Man shut the first reactor down: the “sun” along with the Tritium just vanished meaning Tritium would eventually run out pretty quickly given how finite it is.

But let’s assume that one of these reactors would be  powerful enough power a whole continent for centuries with no maintenance or something then you would still need to build power cables across the continent to make it possible connect It to cities in different states/countries hundreds of miles away from each other. Also what if one of these reactor was sabotaged or something? Then a whole continent would lose its power.

Could someone explain to how the reactor would be effective?
gpt
It seems like once the small amount of Tritum can keep it going *indefinitely,* or at least indefinitely for all intents and purposes. You just need to switch it on once and then it keeps making massive amounts of energy constantly for the duration of the lifespan of a star with no further fuel needed.

While, as you say, it has unique problems to go with that- as all power methods do- that's a pretty impressive feat, and well worth looking into as a powersource.