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I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Radomir Ilić, Jože Rant, Tomaž Šutej, Mirko Doberšek, Edvard Krištof, Jure Skvarč, Matjaž Koželj
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 505-511
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29286
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A search was conducted for neutrons, protons, tritons, 3He ions, gamma rays, and ion-induced X rays from deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion in cast (36-g), annealed (4-g), and cold-rolled (16-g) palladium specimens and a palladium hydrogen thermal valve (11 g) electrochemically charged with deuterium. The palladium cathodes were charged in an electrolytic cell [0.1 M LiOD (99.8% deuterium), platinum anode] at a current density of 25 mA/cm2 from 20 to 140 h. One unique aspect of the experiment was the radiation detection system, consisting of a CR-39 track-etch detector, bare for proton detection (sensitivity limit 4.8 × 10−2 fusion/s), combined with a polyethylene fast neutron radiator (0.95 fusion/s), a boron thermal neutron radiator (26 fusion/s), a BD-100 bubble damage polymer detector (5.2 fusion/s), an array of six 3He proportional counters (126 fusion/s), a CaF2 thermoluminescent dosimeter (11.4 fusion/s), and a germanium semiconductor spectrometer (17 fusion/s). The D-D fusion rate in cast, annealed, and cold-rolled palladium is <3 × 10−22, <7.8 × 10−21 and <1.2 × 10−21 (D-Dn) fusion/D-D pair·s−1, respectively. In the palladium hydrogen thermal valve, this value was <1.1 × 10−23 (D-Dp) fusion/D-D pair·s−1 and <2.3 × 10−22 (D-Dn) fusion/DD pair·s−1.