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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Reiko Notoya, Yohichi Noya, Toshiyuki Ohnishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 2 | September 1994 | Pages 179-183
Technical Paper | Electrolytic Device | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A30341
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The generation of tritium was quantitatively measured in an electrolytic cell with a nickel cathode and a platinum anode in potassium carbonate-light and heavy water solutions. Simultaneously, the evolution of a large amount of excess heat (70 to 170% for the input power) was observed during electrolysis of these solutions. The tritium generation by electrolysis provides some of the most conclusive evidence for so-called cold fusion, along with the calcium generation described in a previous paper. On the basis of the current experiments and the knowledge of the kinetics of a hydrogen evolution reaction in an alkaline solution, the nuclear reactions taking place are worth mentioning.