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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 3 | May 1993 | Pages 346-352
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30165
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Experiments with two massive deuterium-loaded palladium samples designed to search for deuteron-deuteron (d-d) fusion during thermal degassing are described. In the heavier of the two samples, which has a total mass of ∼0.5 kg, during deuterium expulsion from the metal, a significant neutron excess count rate was detected by two independent NE-213 scintillation neutron detectors. The maximum time-dependent excess count rate corresponds to a d-d reaction rate of (3 ± 1) × 10−25 per deuteron pair per second. From detector pulse high spectra, the energy of the neutrons is determined to be ∼2.5 MeV, as expected for d-d fusion neutrons.
