Neutron sources? (Re: (3745) TL8 Prejudices?)

> From: [email removed] (metlay)
> Subject: (3745) TL8 Prejudices?
>
> Many thanks to Steve Higginbotham for correcting the mistaken identity
> in his post. I could rebut his arguments in a number of areas, including
> a post of thermal output vs. neutron flux figures that prove that any
> fusion burst small enough not to do overwhelming neutron damage will
> carry a negligible thermal impact (i.e. fusion becomes deadly as a
> neutron source LONG before it can fry anything), but I'd prefer to
> stand on philosophical arguments this time around....

I don't claim to be up on the current thinking of physicists, but why is
fusion such a huge a SOURCE of neutrons?  I thought that the basic type
of fusion we've been talking about was 2 D -> 1 He or 1 T + 1 H -> 1 He
or some similar reaction where a hydrogen isotope is converted into
helium.  Since there's a lot more hydrogen than deuterium or tritium, I'd
think that if anything the fusion process would need EXTRA neutrons.  Is
it really a neutron SINK (for lack of a better term)?

Jerry Williams