Bang!
Channel: Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project
Date: 2015-02-06

After successfully testing a new sealing method for simple reactor core manufacture, MFMP team members next experiment passes through the "Parkhomov threshold", that is temperatures above which Dr. Alexander Parkhomov reported first seeing 'excess heat'. As a precaution, the team erect a blast shield... and not a moment too soon!

NOTE: Look at the area of the ceramic outer tube just after the event.

As Francesco Celani says - Safety, Safety, Safety.

The video shows the effectiveness of Aluminum ferrule based swageloks sealing the 1/4 inch reactor tube to high pressures. Simple, fast, cheap, repeatable.