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U.K. consents to Hinkley Point B decommissioning
The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
Francesco Celani, Antonio Spallone, Sandro Pace, Basilio Polichetti, Aniello Saggese, Lorella Liberatori, Vittorio di Stefano, Paolo Marini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 4 | July 1990 | Pages 718-724
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29208
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Several experiments were performed at the Gran Sasso Laboratory on an 0.8-cm-diam × 5-cm-long, hyperpure, high-temperature vacuum-annealed palladium rod used as a cathode for electrolytic infusion of D2O and 0.1 M LiOH with regular additions of gaseous CO2 at a current density of 60 mA/cm2. In the very low background radiation environment, several gamma bursts lasting up to 15 min were detected whose intensity, in terms of cold fusion, was > 10−20 fusion/(deuteron pair · s). Under normal background conditions, none of these burst signals would have been detected with statistical significance. The shape and intensity of these signals are quite similar to those detected previously.