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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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Chun-Ching Chien, Theresa Chen Huang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 3 | November 1992 | Pages 391-394
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30098
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Tritium activity values are obtained from the electrolysis of heavy water on palladium and are higher than background values by over three orders of magnitude in at least 10 of 100 experiments. These values are far in excess of those expected from the enrichment of tritium during long-term electrolysis. The pretreatment of palladium, including acid etching and anodic charging and initial mild cathodic charging, seems to play the most important role in the success of the current experiments. Raising the temperature might enhance the rate of reaction, while small voltage increases will trigger the reaction. Too large an applied voltage change will quench the reaction. It is observed that heavy water additions or turbulence of the electrolyte might be a possible cause of the temporary quenching of the reaction.