The possible mechanisms of deuteron-deuteron fusion during electrolytic infusion ofdeuterons into metallic palladium electrode are studied and a rough estimation of the fusionrate is made. The deuteron ions in the palladium lattice form a strong coupled plasma inwhich there is a strong screening effect induced by the correlation between ions. This effectincreases greatly the nuclear fusion rate. Our calculations, Lowever, show that D-D fusionrate in the equilibrium deuteron system at normal temperature and atmosphere pressure willnever reach the level that can be measured experimentally. The positive results of D-D fusionin some experiments may be caused by some non-equilibrium processes in which relativelyhigh energy of deuterons and/or high density region are locally produced.
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