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“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 4 | July 1990 | Pages 710-712
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29206
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A theory of solid-state fusion based on the formation of a D+ Bose Bloch condensate (BBC) is summarized. The first step toward fusion is a coalescence reaction that converts a multiple-occupation state of chemical density into a state of nuclear density. In PdDx, conditions for formation of a BBC are favorable when x is near unity, due to avoidance of lattice strain energy that otherwise contributes to the chemical potential. Fusion obeys a 3ldquo;boson in, boson out” selection rule and avoids the proton and neutron fluxes of collision-induced fusion. Some cold fusion studies are compatible with the theory and indicate the possibility of largely radiation-free commercial nuclear power from an inexhaustible fuel supply.