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A fourth time around for World Nuclear Energy Day
World Nuclear Energy Day takes place tomorrow, marking the 81st anniversary of the day in 1942 when Enrico Fermi and his team achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction with Chicago Pile-1. It also is the anniversary of the first commercial nuclear reactor reaching criticality—at Shippingport, Pa., on December 2, 1957.
John R. Morrey, Marc W. Caffee, Harry Farrar IV, Nathan J. Hoffman, G. Bryant Hudson, Russell H. Jones, Mark D. Kurz, John Lupton, Brian M. Oliver, Brian V. Ruiz, John F. Wacker, A. van Veen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 4 | December 1990 | Pages 659-668
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29260
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The results of a double-blind, cold fusion experiment are reported, in which six laboratories measured the helium content of five identically shaped 2-mm-diam × 10-cm-long palladium rods supplied by Fleischmann and Pons. Three rods were initially implanted with 4He. Before analysis, three of the rods had served as cathodes during electrolysis in cold fusion experiments: two in 0.1 M LiOD, and one in 0.1 M LiOH. The other two, one implanted and one not, served as references. The major observations are as follows: