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Russia withdraws from 25-year-old weapons-grade plutonium agreement
Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the State Duma, approved a measure to withdraw from a 25-year-old agreement with the United States to cut back on the leftover plutonium from Cold War–era nuclear weapons.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 4 | July 1991 | Pages 2131-2134
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29351
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The equilibrium behavior of diatomic hydrogen in a potential well is explored. The amount of “squeezing” experienced by hydrogen in the well is compared to that expected for hydrogen within palladium. Results show insufficient squeezing to account for the cold fusion phenomenon.
