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The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
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.