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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Kenneth A. Ritley, Kelvin G. Lynn, Peter Dull, Marc H. Weber, Michael Carroll, James J. Hurst
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 1 | January 1991 | Pages 192-195
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29330
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A search for anomalous heat generation and tritium production that could be associated with cold fusion in electrolytically deuterided palladium was carried out for > 180 days. Ten cathodes were mounted in electrolytic cells with LiOD and LiOH electrolytes and galvanostatically charged at current densities between 15 and 348 mA/cm2. Most of the electrolytic cells were closed to the external environment; in all cells, the gases evolved during electrolysis were internally recombined using platinum recombination catalysts mounted in the cells. Tritium concentration assays using a liquid scintillation analyzer were performed on aliquots of electrolyte taken from some cells. No increase in tritium concentration was observed in the closed cells; in the partially open cells, small fluctuations in tritium concentration were observed, but these can be attributed to systematic errors.
