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NRC wants input on Hermes 2 test reactor construction permit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking input on its draft environmental assessment and draft finding of no significant impact for Kairos Power’s application to build the Hermes 2 test reactor facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Michael Bittner, Andreas Meister, Dieter Seeliger, Rainer Schwierz, Peter Wustner
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 3 | May 1993 | Pages 346-352
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30165
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experiments with two massive deuterium-loaded palladium samples designed to search for deuteron-deuteron (d-d) fusion during thermal degassing are described. In the heavier of the two samples, which has a total mass of ∼0.5 kg, during deuterium expulsion from the metal, a significant neutron excess count rate was detected by two independent NE-213 scintillation neutron detectors. The maximum time-dependent excess count rate corresponds to a d-d reaction rate of (3 ± 1) × 10−25 per deuteron pair per second. From detector pulse high spectra, the energy of the neutrons is determined to be ∼2.5 MeV, as expected for d-d fusion neutrons.
