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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 3 | November 1991 | Pages 334-348
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29674
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Two successive long-duration experiments for the observation of deuteron-deuteron (d-d) fusion neutrons emanating from a massive palladium slab are described. The experimental effects observed are discussed through the use of a simple plasmalike model for the time dependence of fusion reactions in condensed matter, which is modified for a plane geometry. This results in a plasma fusion rate of . While plasmalike behavior leading to observable d-d fusion reaction intensities occurs temporarily, under nonequilibrium conditions of electrolytic charging only, for permanently occurring d-d molecular fusion in the fully loaded palladium slab from the experiments, only an upper limit can be set, which is given by Λd-d < 10-26 s-1.