Nikkei on Cold Fusion

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1/14 of 2018 Information source Nikkei Shimbun Morning Paper

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"Room temperature nuclear fusion" in which hydrogen atoms generate a nuclear fusion reaction at room temperature to produce energy. The world's researchers entered a series one after another in 1989 when they observed this phenomenon for the first time, but the experimental results were not reproduced and the boom faded rapidly. About 30 years since then. The occurrence of excessive heat which is thought to be caused by the nuclear reaction is constantly confirmed, mainly in the Japanese research group which has continued his research in the steady state, and clues to find out the identity of the unknown reaction are getting.

Toyota Group's technological think tanks technoba (Tokyo · Chiyoda), Nissan Motor, Tohoku University, Kobe University, Kyushu University, Nagoya University participate in the results of observation of fever which is thought to be caused by hydrogen nuclear reaction Research group. We got research funding from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and conducted an experiment for two years until October 2017.
In order to compare experimental results with each other, we installed laboratory equipments of the same scale in Kobe University and Tohoku University and used common specimen samples. The common experiment was carried out 16 times while varying conditions such as sample composition and temperature, and the conditions of heat generation were searched. In the best-performing case, 120 grams of sample was used, and an excessive heat of 10 to 20 watts lasted about 1 month.

　In the experiment of the same group, a sample of a metal powder was made with a combination of palladium and nickel, a deuterium or hydrogen gas formed by one proton and one neutron nucleus was injected and the reaction was carried out on the metal surface It is a thing to raise. The way of injecting hydrogen gas into a metallic material with a microstructure is the prototype that was invented in 2005 by Professor Emeritus Yoshiaki Arata of Osaka University.

　In 2001, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries succeeded in "transmutation" in which cesium and strontium are changed to other elements by permeating deuterium gas through a multilayered film made from palladium or the like. Mr. Yasuhiro Iwamura who was responsible for this research moved to Tohoku University and participated as a core member in this research project.

A cold fusion method announced by researchers such as the United States about 30 years ago was to electrolyze heavy water with palladium electrodes. Although this method has been attempted extensively now abroad, the research group such as Technova has been studying the method of injecting deuterium (or hydrogen) gas into the metal rather than the electrolysis method as a promising method.

　Through experiments, the conditions under which an exothermic reaction occurs have been clarified. First of all, it is necessary to combine two kinds of metal like "palladium and nickel" because it is not a single type of metal. Moreover, when the ratio of palladium and copper was decreased as in "palladium 1: nickel 7" and "copper 1: nickel 7", the generation of heat was also great.

　"A specimen made at an appropriate ratio has a clearance structure smaller than nano (1 / billionth of a meter) on the surface, and hydrogen seems to have entered into this space and a reaction is occurring." expainsl Professor Emeritus of Osaka University Takahashi who is a senior adviser to the research group and Technoba.

　If the proportion of palladium or copper is high, these metals surround the specimen around the specimen carefully, and it is impossible to create "places" where hydrogen react with each other. "Heat is generated in experiments by electrolysis, probably because these nanostructures were made by accident on the metal electrode surface," said Prof. Takahashi.

　It is also clear that exothermic reaction occurs even when hydrogen gas to be injected is not deuterium gas but normal hydrogen gas. Also, when injecting gas, raising the temperature inside the device to 200 to 400 degrees Celsius, it was found that the exothermic reaction did not stop within a short time and continued for several weeks.

　At Tohoku University's equipment, a high temperature that melts ceramics attached with metal specimen is also occurring, he says, "There is no doubt that an unknown reaction that can not be explained by ordinary chemical reactions is occurring" (Prof. Iwamura).

　What kind of reaction is actually going on? "Agglomerate fusion", which is said to occur in an extremely fine space, has been proposed by Prof. Takahashi Four deuterium atoms condense to one point and nuclear fusion occurs once beryllium is formed. This breaks into two helium and heat is generated. In this case there is no radiation emitted in the case of normal fusion.

　The research group sees that it is possible to generate 1 kilowatts of heat which is two orders of magnitude larger than the present by improving the structure of the sample, increasing the amount, devising the temperature condition and so on. The cold fusion, which was once said to be "science of fake" because the experiment of reproduction did not work, still has distrusted researchers. Professor Emeritus Takahashi says "I will show the results convinced by everyone and want to ask the world once again the significance of this research."

(Editorial Member Kazuki Yoshikawa)

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I wonder if this can be attempted with a successive dilute copper and palladium "washes" over a catalytic converter-type ceramic support. I know that standard catalytic converter and hydrogen type experiments have been fiddled with, but this would be more focussed, and not an oxidizing- recombination type effect (these would be avoided).