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The U.K. government’s Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted EDF Energy formal consent to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor was permanently shut down in August 2022, and site owner EDF applied to ONR for decommissioning consent in August 2024.
Frederick J. Mayer, John R. Reitz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 3 | November 1991 | Pages 367-372
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29680
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Some results are described that derive from the assumption that very low energy (≈ eV) electron-proton, electron-deuteron, and electron-triton resonance particle systems (denoted π, δ, and τ-hydrons) are created in various materials and experiments. Information regarding the resonance width and lifetime is extracted from the data of cluster-impact fusion experiments, and these experiments are discussed in connection with other anomalous experiments, including cold fusion experiments, which are examples of a new class of hydron-mediated nuclear reactions—resonant direct nuclear reactions.