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RIC session addresses reactor restarts—and lessons learned at Palisades
At last week’s Regulatory Information Conference, Jamie Pelton cochaired a panel on the Palisades nuclear plant’s restart—a “historic restart,” as she put it.
Her choice of words was perhaps an understatement. After all, no U.S. nuclear plant has yet restarted after being slated for decommissioning.
Johann H. Schneider
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 3 | November 1989 | Pages 377-378
Special Section Content | Cold Fusion Technical Notes | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29128
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The experiments of Jones et al. on cold nuclear fusion are explained by the quantum mechanical tunnel effect. A transmission coefficient is derived from Schrödinger's equation in one dimension, using a rectangular form of the potential. This special form of the coulomb barrier for the deuteron-deuteron reaction does not prevent a significant fraction of nuclei from penetrating the barrier.
