Tritium production from a plasma discharge on palladium
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
Over the past year we have been able to demonstrate that a plasma loading method produces an exciting and unexpected amount of tritium. In contrast to electrochemical hydrogen or deuterium loading of palladium, this method yields a reproducible tritium generation rate when various electrical and physical conditions are met. We will show tritium generation rates for deuterium-palladium foreground runs that are up to 25 times larger than hydrogen-palladium control experiments using materials from the same batch. The reproducibility of the technique and the large signal to noise over background has allowed us to vary parameters that have been difficult to investigate with previous methods. We intend to illustrate the difference between batches of annealed palladium and as received palladium from several batches to demonstrate that the tritium generation rate can vary by a factor of 40 from batch to batch. The effect of other metals, wire and plate thicknesses on the tritium generation rate will be shown. We plan to discuss these new procedures, present typical results, and speculate concerning the implications for further work.
- OSTI ID:
- 126689
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950402--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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