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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
José Francisco Fernandez, Fermin Cuevas, Miguel Algueró, Carlos Sánchez
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 2 | March 1997 | Pages 237-247
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reaction in Solid | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30826
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The production of neutrons from D + D reactions in thermally cycled titanium deutende (TiDx) (x ≈ 2) is investigated in depth. Special attention is given to cubic-tetragonal (δ-ϵ) phase transition that TiDx experiences near room temperature as a possible triggering mechanism of “cold nuclear fusion reactions.” The TiDx (x ≈ 2.00) samples, possessing well-known properties about the δ-ϵ transition, are cycled at temperatures (from −60 to 60°C) where the phase transition takes place. The cold fusion signature is investigated by measuring the neutron flux of the sample during the experiments. No significant neutron signal above the background level is found during thermal cycling of the TiDx samples. It is concluded that in the samples investigated, no correlation exists between the δ-ϵ transition and the trigger of the D + D reactions. Background deviations give an upper limit of the rate of the D + D → 3He + n reaction of λ < 10−23 fusion/p-d·s.