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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.
Igor L. Beltyukov, Nikolay B. Bondarenko, Arsen A. Janelidze, Mikhail Yu. Gapanov, Konstantin G. Gribanov, Stanislav V. Kondratov, Aleksey G. Maltsev, Peter I. Novikov, Sergey A. Tsvetkov, Vyacheslav I. Zakharov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 2 | September 1991 | Pages 234-238
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29694
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A laser-induced cold fusion reaction has been obtained in Ti-H2-D2-T2 systems. Correlations are found among gamma-ray pulses, neutron emission pulses, and phase transitions in the Ti-D2 system. No thermal effect is observed. Gamma-ray fluxes of ∼5 × 103 gamma/s and neutron emission of ∼2 × 102 n/s in pulses of <0.5 s have been obtained. The possibility of laser generation of gamma rays in the cold fusion reaction is discussed, as are aspects of laser-induced phase transitions in metal-gas systems.