Engineering Physics Annotation << Back The mechanism of energy release in the reaction D+D&#8594;4He* in conducting crystals (simulation of the experiment) Tsyganov E.N. Bavizhev M.D. Golovatyuk V.M. Dabagov S.B. Lobastov S.P. At the present time, mankind has come to a stage of development, when the struggle for energy resources has become particularly urgent, because all the known renewable energy resources cannot meet the needs of human progress. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the chemical energy is bound by the so-called greenhouse effect. Nuclear energy based on the use of fissile materials is not a solution, because the stocks of these materials are limited. Initial expectations that this problem would be solved soon by the process of controlled thermonuclear fusion did not materialize. Technical difficulties obtaining sustainable super-hot plasma and the damaging effects of the enormous neutron flux arising as a result of fusion reactions are pushing the solution of this problem to a more distant and uncertain future. Recently, the assurance that the problem of nuclear fusion can be solved quite differently has been aroused. It has been shown experimentally that the cross-barrier fusion processes greatly depend on the physical state of matter where reactive atoms are placed in. Convergence of two deuterium nuclei in metals is by an order of magnitude smaller than the size of the free atom of deuterium due to Rydberg mechanism. Coulomb barrier permeability in DD fusion greatly in-creases process (by the 50…60 orders) as compared with a permeability barrier to free molecules of deuterium. This manuscript discusses the possibility of the experimental detection of the «cold» DD fusion with the detection of low energy electrons, which are the result of the fusion reaction of two deuterons in palladium crystals with very small (thermal) excitation energies of the intermediate compound nucleus 4He*. This process is made possible by the exchange of the compound nucleus and the electrons of the crystal lattice by so-called virtual photons. Calculations of electrical potentials are performed for the crystal lattice of the fcc-type for the titanium, palladium, and platinum. The experiment was modeled using the Mote Carlo method. Key words: deuterium fusion, crystalline lattice, Coulomb barrier transparency, muon catalysis, Rydberg mechanism, nuclear fusion catalysis, electron shell deformation, Thomas-Fermi model, virtual photon, semiconductor detectors. Contacts: E-mail: edward.tsyganov@coldfusion-power.com Pp. 03-17.