DOE Provides Support for Basic LENR Research

April 17, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

The Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences provided support to a team of researchers to perform basic LENR measurements. The work was reported in 2012 in the Journal of Applied Physics. (See New Energy Times article “LENR Researchers Perform Experiments at DOE Lab.”)

The project was a collaboration among researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory, in Washington, D.C., and the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA) in Frascati, Italy.

Researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and from Nova Research Inc., in Alexandria, Virginia, also participated.

The research was organized by Graham Hubler, then the head of the Materials and Sensors Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory. Hubler retired from NRL on Aug. 3, 2012.

Hubler and his NRL colleagues, along with Vittorio Violante of ENEA, performed experiments and made measurements at Brookhaven for nine days and nights. They used its National Synchrotron Light Source to measure the degree of hydrogen and deuterium loading in palladium.

The work was funded through DOE contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886, which is a multiyear contract covering broad-based research.