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NRC issues Palisades’ draft environmental review, seeks public comment
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is asking for public comments until March 3 on its environmental assessment (EA) and draft finding of no significant impact at Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant, where Holtec hopes to restart operations by the end of 2025.
J. A. Maly, J. Vávra
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 1 | January 1995 | Pages 59-70
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reaction in Solid | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30350
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It has been suggested that both the relativistic Schroedinger and Dirac equations allow the existence of so-called “deep Dirac levels” (DDL) in all atoms of the periodic table. An estimate of the size of the DDL atoms is given, and a physics explanation is proposed for exciting the DDL transitions. Possible secondary nuclear reactions of the atoms on the DDLs are suggested, and preliminary experimental results are presented. A search has begun for some direct experimental evidence supporting the proposed DDL model. So far, in electrolytic experiments, only calorimetric evidence was found.