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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
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.
Jacques Dufour
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 24 | Number 2 | September 1993 | Pages 205-228
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30228
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Excess energy production, well above the background and in amounts of the same order of magnitude as the input energy, has been measured that has been caused by sparking in hydrogen isotopes between electrodes made of metallic hydride-forming metals (palladium and stainless steel). This excess energy production is stable over long periods (several weeks) and is observed with both hydrogen and deuterium. Only extremely low levels of neutrons and tritium have been detected, many orders of magnitude below what would be expected from the excess energy production measured. On the contrary, copious emission of low-energy radiation (likely to be beta rays) has been observed. A class of hypothetical nuclear reactions, based on the action of the weak electronuclear force, is proposed that accounts f or all the experimental f acts observed.