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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
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Fulvio Frisone
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 2001 | Pages 139-146
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A188
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
It is demonstrated that the deformation of the crystalline lattice at room temperature can influence the process of fusion of the deuterons introduced into the lattice by deuterium loading. In fact, calculating the probability of deuteron-plasmon fusion within a microcrack, showed, together with the enhancement of the tunneling effect, an increase of at least one to three orders of magnitude compared to the probability of fusion on the surface of the lattice. These phenomena open the way to the theoretical hypothesis that a kind of chain reaction, catalyzed by the microcracks produced in the structure as a result of deuterium loading, can favor the process.