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Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Experiment generates millions of neutrons in a second
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A University of Missouri professor has resurrected his two-decade-old work in the contested field of cold fusion. He presented his findings at a cold fusion conference in August in South Korea.
Neutron Emission from Cryogenically Cooled Metals Under Thermal Shock (7 pages)
Mark Prelas, now a professor in the university's Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute, received funding from the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance at MU. It was created with a $5.5 million gift from the institute's namesake, an apparel tycoon who founded The Jones Group.
Five other research teams are working on energy-related studies through the institute.
In the original experiment, the team created an emitted neutron-recording device and expected to count about 10 neutrons a second. The card's storage was used up in less than one-hundredth of a second. Then, the team used a counter with the capacity to track up to 1 million neutrons and timed it again. They reached a million neutrons in a second.
Sketch of the testing chamber used for the pressure shock experiment. The pressure guage was a bourbon tube with a 1000 psi maximum and an accuracy of 3%. The catch tank was evacuated and used to capture the D2 gas from the test chamber for analysis. The hot water inlet and outlet were used to thermally shock the samples
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