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Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Johann H. Schneider
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 377-378
Special Section Content | Cold Fusion Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29128
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The experiments of Jones et al. on cold nuclear fusion are explained by the quantum mechanical tunnel effect. A transmission coefficient is derived from Schrödinger's equation in one dimension, using a rectangular form of the potential. This special form of the coulomb barrier for the deuteron-deuteron reaction does not prevent a significant fraction of nuclei from penetrating the barrier.
