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Tritium and neutron measurements from deuterated Pd‐Si

 

作者: T. N. Claytor,   D. G. Tuggle,   H. O. Menlove,   P. A. Seeger,   W. R. Doty,   R. K. Rohwer,  

 

期刊: AIP Conference Proceedings  (AIP Available online 1991)
卷期: Volume 228, issue 1  

页码: 467-480

 

ISSN:0094-243X

 

年代: 1991

 

DOI:10.1063/1.40668

 

出版商: AIP

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

Evidence has been found for tritium and neutron production in palladium and silicon stacks when pulsed with a high electric current. These palladium‐silicon stacks consist of alternating layers of pressed palladium and silicon powder. A pulsed high electric current is thought to promote non‐equilibrium conditions important for tritium and neutron production. More than 2000 hours of neutron counting time has been accumulated in a underground, low background, environment with high efficiency counters (21%). Neutron emission has occurred as infrequent bursts or as low level emission lasting for up to 20 hours. In eight of 30 cells, excess tritium greater than 3 sigma has been observed. In each of these measurements, with the powder system, the ratio of tritium detected to total integrated total neutrons inferred has been anomalously high. Recent cells have shown reproducible tritium generation at a level of about 0.5 nCi/hr. Several hydrogen and air control cells have been run with no anomalous excess tritium or neutron emission above background. A singificant amount of the total palladium inventory (18%) has been checked for tritium contamination by three independent means.

 

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