Emergency pressure valves began venting deuterium gas from tanks around the fusion drive section as the liquid started to boil from the electromagnetic energy input.
But deuterium nuclei inside a palladium lattice are further apart than in deuterium gas, and there should be fewer fusion reactions, not more.
Zeta passed currents of up to about 150kA through deuterium gas, for periods of two to three milliseconds.
The most common fuel used is ionized deuterium gas.
Dr. Putterman says he envisions a device consisting just of an egg-size container with a crystal, deuterium gas and the target inside.
Even in early runs the team started introducing deuterium gas.
Titanium deuteride is used to store deuterium gas so that the gas can be generated when it is heated.
It seems to me, therefore, that the function of UD3 is to generate deuterium gas so that it can be used in a plasma focus neutron generator.
Explaining his experiment, Dr. Scaramuzzi said that he had exposed titanium scraps to deuterium gas.
In a second experiment, the liquid nitrogen was removed so that the temperature rose toward room temperature, and the deuterium gas was also removed.