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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.
Akito Takahashi, Toshiyuki Iida, Fujio Maekawa, Hisashi Sugimoto, Shigeo Yoshida
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 2 | March 1991 | Pages 380-390
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29373
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Based on the electron screening effect and the excitation of deuteron harmonic oscillators in a palladium lattice, possible explanations of cold fusion phenomena and the possibility of nuclear heating are discussed. A narrow window is proposed to reach the ∼10 W/cm3 required nuclear heating for three-body fusion by a hypothetical excitation-screening model. A relatively wide window is feasible to reach a few fusion events per second per cubic centimetre under the non-stationary conditions of deuteron charging and discharging. Cold fusion is not feasible under stationary lattice conditions. To confirm the cold fusion phenomena, a heavy water electrolysis experiment is carried out using biased-pulse electrolytic currents, in order to enhance the detection of cold fusion events during charging and discharging of deuterons. A cross-checking system consisting of a recoil-proton scintillation detector and a 3He thermal neutron detector is used to determine the patterns of neutron emission over time. To determine the energy of the emitted neutrons, the pulse-height spectra of the recoil-proton detector are monitored. For a deuterium charging time of 300 h, neutron yields of 1 to 2 n/s·cm3 are obtained for time intervals of 60 to 200 h. From the recoil-proton spectra, it is confirmed that 2.45-MeV neutrons from the D(d, n)3He fusion branch reaction are emitted. The observed time patterns of neutron emission suggest the existence of cold fusion under deuterium charging and discharging.
