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North American construction is back—smaller and faster—at OPG’s Darlington
“The nuclear renaissance is real here,” said Ontario Power Generation’s Subo Sinnathamby on May 8, one year to the day after OPG secured a final investment decision to build the first of four planned BWRX-300 reactors at its Darlington nuclear power plant, and shortly after the new reactor’s foundation was lifted into place. “We got our license to construct in April and our [final investment decision] in May, and we’ve been off to the races since.”
Bor Yann Liaw, Peng-Long Tao, Bruce E. Liebert
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 1 | January 1993 | Pages 92-97
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30123
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A case of 4He enrichment in a spent palladium deuteride electrode is reported. The issue of helium isotope production related to the Fleischmann-Pons effect is still much in debate. In light of this important issue, two palladium samples, used in deuteride- and hydride-conducting molten salt electrolytes, and their corresponding blanks were analyzed for both 3He and 4He content. Four specimens from the deuteride sample, which has produced excess heat, showed significant 4He signals (enrichment) above the blank background level, while the hydride sample, used as a control with no excess heat measured, exhibited an opposite (depletion) effect. The 3He content remained unchanged, within the limits of the instrument's sensitivity. The amount of 4He detected was not commensurate with the excess heat according to known reaction mechanisms. The interpretation of the results was complicated by a substantial morphology difference among the samples. Because the level of helium content was small in magnitude, the possibility of atmospheric contamination cannot be dismissed completely.