Preliminary experimental study on cold fusion using deuterium gas and deuterium plasma in the presence of palladium

The authors describe a series of experiments using deuterium gas and deuterium plasma in the presence of palladium designed to observe the possibility of cold fusion. Two kinds of preliminary experiments were recently performed. One involved the diffusion of deuterium gas into paladium. The gas was cooled by liquid nitrogen, and then the temperature was permitted to rise to room temperature, going from near -34 to 190C (-30 to 670F) in 75 min. A spherical lithium neutron detector, 21 cm from the palladium gave an audible indication of neutron levels approximately equal to, but above, background. A second experiment used a deuterium ion beam (1 keV) that bombarded a palladium target