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DOE issues final RFQ for WIPP clean energy initiative
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for qualifications for interested parties and prospective offerors looking to enter into a realty agreement for carbon-pollution-free electricity (CFE) projects at the department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in southeastern New Mexico.
Tadayoshi Ohmori, Tadahiko Mizuno, Yoshinobu Nodasaka, Michio Enyo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 33 | Number 3 | May 1998 | Pages 367-382
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A38
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Mercury, krypton, nickel, and iron with anomalous isotopic compositions were found to be produced on or in gold electrons during light water electrolysis. In addition, silicon and magnesium with anomalous isotopic compositions were also detected in the precipitates separated from the gold electrode electrolyzed at extremely high current densities. After the electrolysis, the surface of the electrode exhibited an extraordinary structure, i.e., a number of microcraters like volcanoes were developed. The structure of the outside wall of the craters was very much like that of the precipitates, and hexagonal crystallite layers in the inside wall of the craters suggested a partial recrystallization of the electrode material due to some intense heat evolution. The craters developed along the rim of the microcracks, microholes, and scraped edges of the electrode. These results suggest that some nuclear transmutation reactions occur during the electrolysis to produce these effects.