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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Albert G. Gu, Robert K. F. Teng, Mark S. Miller, Wayne J. Sprouse
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 16 | Number 2 | September 1989 | Pages 248-250
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A29156
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A series of experiments using deuterium gas and deuterium plasma in the presence of palladium has been designed to observe the possibility of cold fusion. Two kinds of preliminary experiments were recently performed. One involved the diffusion of deuterium gas into palladium. The gas was cooled by liquid nitrogen, and then the temperature was permitted to rise to room temperature, going from near −34 to 19°C (−30 to 67°F) in 75 min. A spherical lithium neutron detector, 21 cm from the palladium, gave an audible indication of neutron levels approximately equal to, but above, background. A second experiment used a deuterium ion beam (1 keV) that bombarded a palladium target. An average counting rate of 36 ± 6 counts for 2 min was measured by a BF3 tube with a paraffin moderator, 50 cm from the target. The background varied from 1 to 7 counts for each 2-min counting period and averaged 4 ± 2 counts in 2 min. A nitrogen ion beam impinging on the same palladium target produced 6 counts for a 2-min counting period. The palladium specimens were a piece of foil and a tube that was used as a palladium leak in a neutron generator. These preliminary experiments will be repeated, improved, and extended later.