Small alloy test charges are usually manufacured under labaratory conditions using a high-frequency induction heater . To manufacture a Pd-Li alloy you have to use additional flux, that covers up the Li-material, before you can melt it. As Lithium is a combustible light-metal it would start burning in the air, otherwise.
With the modification I get the following low budget design for an "Beam on Pd-D-Li Target Fusor":
- Manufacturing an Palladium-Lithium electrode like mentioned above
- Take a television tube from a bigger old school TV / CRT Monitor
- Let the vacuum out
- Cut a round! "service whole" into the television tube using a glas cutter (cornered holes will make the glass crack under vacuum)
- Manufacturing an electrolytical cell, that will be filled with D2O, that has a prolonged electrode out of Pd-Li sheet on that side, where the deuterium is generated
- The whole electrolytical cell is placed into the television tube
- The televisons tube's electron generation unit's polarization is reversed and the voltage is increased, so that it produces a ion beam instead of an electron beam, now, when there is plasma in the tube
- The prolonged Pd-Li-electrode is positioned at the Zero-beam position of the television tube
- The tube's beam generation units and the electrolytical cell get powered; the electrolytical cell starts to produce deuterium, that gets stored as palladium-deuterium-ligand within in the electrode
- The television tube is set under vaccuum. Due to the vaccum, some of the deuterium in the palladium electrode evaporades into the tube. A deuterium plasma is generated in the tube. From the deuterium plasma the tube's beam unit starts to produce a deuterium-ion beam.
- Thus, the palladium-lithium-deuterid-ligand in the prolonged electrode gets bombarded with deuterium-ions
- The Lithium in the Pd-Li electrode gets fissioned into tritium and helium
- The bombardment of the tritium with deuterium ions startes a D-T fusion process
From my point of view, this deuterium-tritium fusion process is not too dangerous, because
- No direct toxic tritium gas is required,
- most of the tritium, that is generated from lithium fission, gets bound to the palladium electrode (as deuterium and simple hydrogen do)
- the tritium remains within a sealed (television) vacuum tube
- additonally the whole gadgetry will be build within a fume cupboard to make sure no tritium gets to room air