Scroll down a bit on this page that cyclotron dosn't look too expensive i mean millions?

 

~Scott

I would like to build an atom smasher in order to produce radioactive tritium, and energy. I was thinking that if I accelerated lead, then the lead would break into smaller atoms, and if I accelerated it fast enough into tritium, meanwhile it would release vast sums of energy. I believe if I were to have thermal engines available, I could produce the energy to power the device from the destroyed nuclei, and if not, I could use the tritium to produce the power necessary.

 

If acceleraters were capable of producing more energy than they consume, we'd be using them for that purpose commercially, or at least the labs themselves wouldn't have to rely on outside power to run. Accelerators take far more power to operate than you'd ever hope to recover.