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Some Experiments on the Decrease of Tritium Radioactivity

Otto J. A. Reifenschweiler

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 30 / Number 2 / November 1996 / Pages 261-272

Technical Paper / Special Section: Plasma Control Issues for Tokamaks / Nuclear Reaction in Solid / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A30755

Experiments claiming a sharp decrease in the radioactivity of tritium incorporated in small monocrystalline particles of titanium have been reported and are described here in more detail Additional evaluation provides a high degree of evidence for the decrease in the radioactivity of tritium. A first attempt is made to explain this remarkable effect in terms of a “nuclear pair hypothesis.”