Tritium and tritons in cold fusion

Conference · Fri May 10 04:00:00 EDT 1991 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

OSTI ID:7043066

Wolf, K L; Whitesell, L; Jabs, H; Shoemaker, J ^[1]

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1. Cyclotron Institute, Texas A M University College Station, TX 77843 (United States)

An analysis is conducted on reports of tritium production and of charged-particle emission from deuterated palladium and titanium. Possible sources of error are outline and the lack of definitive experiments is discussed. Extensive sets of experiments are reported in which two previously reported results are checked in detail. A search for charged-particle emission was conducted on deuterated titanium and 6{minus}6{minus}2 titanium alloy that was subjected to cryogenic cycling. Two delta E-E silicon telescopes were used to count 42 samples for 3--4 cycles each from 84K to room temperature. No charge-one particles were detected and alpha particle yields of a few counters per day corresponded to background levels. A search for tritium production from 1 mm diameter palladium wire was conducted on 130 electrolytic cells in D{sub 2}O and H{sub 2}O, and in 250 metal samples. Several samples associated with one lot of palladium stock showed latent tritium levels well above background. No evidence was obtained for the occurrence of nuclear reactions in the electrolytic cells.

• OSTI ID: 7043066
• Report Number(s): CONF-9010260--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States) Journal Volume: 228:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

440103 -- Radiation Instrumentation-- Nuclear Spectroscopic Instrumentation
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700360* -- Fusion Reactions-- (1992-)
BETA DETECTION
CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COLD FUSION
COUNTING RATES
DETECTION
DEUTERATION
ELECTROLYSIS
ELEMENTS
ENERGY DEPENDENCE
HEAVY WATER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LYSIS
METALS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PALLADIUM
PLATINUM METALS
RADIATION DETECTION
THERMAL CYCLING
TIME DEPENDENCE
TITANIUM
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
TRITIUM RECOVERY
TRITONS
WATER