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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Kenneth A. Ritley, Kelvin G. Lynn, Peter Dull, Marc H. Weber, Michael Carroll, James J. Hurst
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 1 | January 1991 | Pages 192-195
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29330
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A search for anomalous heat generation and tritium production that could be associated with cold fusion in electrolytically deuterided palladium was carried out for > 180 days. Ten cathodes were mounted in electrolytic cells with LiOD and LiOH electrolytes and galvanostatically charged at current densities between 15 and 348 mA/cm2. Most of the electrolytic cells were closed to the external environment; in all cells, the gases evolved during electrolysis were internally recombined using platinum recombination catalysts mounted in the cells. Tritium concentration assays using a liquid scintillation analyzer were performed on aliquots of electrolyte taken from some cells. No increase in tritium concentration was observed in the closed cells; in the partially open cells, small fluctuations in tritium concentration were observed, but these can be attributed to systematic errors.
