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NRC schedules webinars on Holtec’s proposed New Mexico storage site
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled four webinars in late August and early September to present its draft environmental findings and receive comments on Holtec International’s proposed consolidated spent nuclear fuel storage facility in New Mexico. Webinars were previously held on June 23 and July 9.
As published in the August 13 Federal Register, the public comment webinars will be held on August 20 from 6–9 p.m., August 25 from 2–5 p.m., August 26 from 6–9 p.m., and September 2 from 11 a.m.–2 p.m. All times are Eastern. Information for the webinars is posted on the NRC’s Public Meetings webpage.
Mukio Fukuhara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 43 | Number 1 | January 2003 | Pages 128-133
Technical Note | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A254
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From symmetric meson theory, the formation of helium nucleus from two deuterons, i.e., fusion, requires necessarily a direct force due to exchange of two neutral pions, which do not actually compose the deuteron nucleus. The neutral pions are provided by two photons, which are produced by emission of excited collective electrons derived from the palladium atoms. The introduction of the pions makes it possible to reduce remarkably an internuclear distance, enhancing the fusion rate for helium formation. The dynamic interaction is interpreted as the result of condensation of deuterons into octahedral interstitial sites by electrolysis and contraction of the deuteron octahedra around the Pd10- atom with the help of the electron-phonon charge-density wave coupling.
