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Lead-Lithium (PbLi)
A liquid metal that breeds tritium and can cool the blanket.
Liquid lead-lithium eutectic breeds tritium (its lithium) while its lead multiplies neutrons, and it can also carry heat. It underpins liquid-metal blanket concepts, traded against magnetohydrodynamic pumping effects.