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Further Measurements on Electrolytic Cold Fusion with D2O and Palladium at Gran Sasso Laboratory

Francesco Celani, Antonio Spallone, Sandro Pace, Basilio Polichetti, Aniello Saggese, Lorella Liberatori, Vittorio di Stefano, Paolo Marini

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 17 / Number 4 / July 1990 / Pages 718-724

Technical Notes on Cold Fusion / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29208

Several experiments were performed at the Gran Sasso Laboratory on an 0.8-cm-diam × 5-cm-long, hyperpure, high-temperature vacuum-annealed palladium rod used as a cathode for electrolytic infusion of D2O and 0.1 M LiOH with regular additions of gaseous CO2 at a current density of 60 mA/cm2. In the very low background radiation environment, several gamma bursts lasting up to 15 min were detected whose intensity, in terms of cold fusion, was > 10−20 fusion/(deuteron pair · s). Under normal background conditions, none of these burst signals would have been detected with statistical significance. The shape and intensity of these signals are quite similar to those detected previously.