Do you have a wild guess what his equipenat costs? $10,000??
Here is a web site for very similar research, probably around $2,000 would get you a working setup with deuterium. The gas can be freely purchased, 250 liters for — I think — around $400.
Beyond that would be an ounce of palladium, just under $500, and a way to get it mixed in with Zirconium — I don’t know whether that means deposited on the surface of it, impregnated into it, or how it is blended.
If you google “palladium zirconium” you get several articles on using a palladium catalyst . Something there might be relevant, it should be easy for these other labs to follow cook-book procedures, many of them tried the cold-fusion equipment and couldn’t make it work.
Sandia national labs should be a good candidate to watch for results.
These things are all supposed to be ‘peer review’ you know.