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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Steven E. Jones
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 915-923
Muon-Catalyzed and Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946961
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Studies of nuclear particle emissions from deuterided solids are briefly reviewed and contrasted with claims of excess power production. Evidence for growth of tritium and helium gases is also considered. Notions of low-energy nuclear debris formation along with lattice heating are critically analyzed. I conclude that there is no basis for connecting low-level nuclear emissions with excess-heat claims.