Can't we synthetically create helium-3 from decaying tritium

[Nayan]

If I am write can't we syntactically creat helium-3 from decayacing tritium if it is true we don't have to mine the moon for helium-3 because mining the moon is very costly and complicated so if we can sycnteticlly creat helium-3 we can save a lot of money

 

[TeethWhitener]

We get most of our helium-3 from decaying tritium right now (a lot of it in the US comes from tritium present in nuclear weapons). The real question should be: where does our supply of tritium come from? Right now, the vast majority (all?) of our tritium supply is bred by irradiating lithium-6 and lithium-7 with neutrons. This process is currently significantly cheaper than space travel to mine He-3, but the demand for He-3 is also very low. If some technology were developed to dramatically boost the demand for He-3 (say, fusion power), and space travel became dramatically cheaper, then at some point, it might be economically feasible to mine the moon for He-3.