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Second round of Launch Pad selections includes eight newcomers
The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory has announced 13 project selections across 12 companies for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, a Department of Energy–led program that integrates reactor and fuel facility authorization, testing, and deployment support for private nuclear developers.
The Launch Pad emerged from the Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program.
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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.