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Conventional sources of fast neutrons in 'cold fusion' experiments

  • 1. CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, 91 - Gif -sur-Yvette (France). Dept. de Physique des Particules Elementaires
  • 2. Grenoble-1 Univ., 74 - Annecy (France). Lab. de Physique des Particules

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In 'cold fusion' experiments with heavy water a source of neutrons is the dissociation of deuterium induced by alpha particles emitted by natural occurring radioisotopes. We evaluate the rate of fast neutron emission as a function of the concentration of U, Th, Rn in contact with deuterium and discuss the possibility that the neutrons claimed to have been observed in 'cold fusion' experiments could be due to this conventional source

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CEA-DPhPE--89-06