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1. A method comprising:supplying deuterium and 3He to a fusion reactor;conducting fusion reactions including deuterium-3He (D-3He) fusion reactions and deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion reactions to produce reaction products comprising 3He and tritium byproducts;pulsing the fusion reactor; andremoving, responsive to the pulsing of the fusion reactor, at least some of the tritium byproducts from the fusion reactor,wherein the at least some of the tritium byproducts from the D-D fusion reactions are removed prior to a deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reaction, andwherein the at least some of the tritium byproducts that are removed prior to contributing to a D-T fusion reaction are produced by the fusion reactor during the D-D fusion reactions. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the tritium is removed from the fusion reactor to decay and create 3He. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the tritium removed from the reactor is allowed to decay into 3He, which is subsequently supplied to the fusion reactor together with additional deuterium. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the 3He is used by supplying the 3He to the fusion reactor together with additional deuterium. 5. The method of claim 3, wherein the 3He supplied to the fusion reactor comprises 3He from previous D-D fusion reactions to allow for a self-sustaining D-3He fuel cycle with no external 3He addition. 6. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the tritium byproducts in a location remote from the fusion reactor. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein conducting the D-D fusion reactions comprises forming at least two plasmoids and accelerating the at least two plasmoids towards one another. 8. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a lithium blanket for production of additional 3He. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein the tritium byproducts are removed between pulses of the fusion reactor. 10. The method of claim 1, further comprising suppressing the D-D reaction based on a temperature at which the fusion reactions are performed and suppressing the D-T reaction by removing the at least some of the tritium byproducts. 11. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing the fusion reactions at a temperature where a fusion reactivity for D-3He is greater than a fusion reactivity for D-D. 12. The method of claim 1, further comprising removing, responsive to the pulsing of the fusion reactor, at least some of the 3He byproducts. 13. The method of claim 12, further comprising supplying the removed 3He as fuel for subsequent fusion reactions.