Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) allowed the publication of a report by Mosier-Boss, P.A., L. Forsley, and P. McDaniel "Investigation of Nano Nuclear Reactions in Condensed Matter, Final Report. 2016," *http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MosierBossinvestigat.pdf <http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MosierBossinvestigat.pdf>*
As it has been highlighted in a different forum (Cobraf), in section 3.8.2 (page 78 in the document) the results of a different experiment than usual are reported. A palladium foil electrolytically loaded with deuterium in Li2SO4 electrolyte was taken out of the cell and placed between a copper block and a high explosive charge. When the charge was triggered a sudden neutron burst was generated, together with the production of a crater in the copper block. This only happened with a single foil sample, the only one that was charged with a Li2SO4 electrolyte and has not additional wires welded to measure the loading. It seems as if something ejected at ultra high velocity from the foil in this specific case and caused havoc on the Cu block. Most of all, this tells something more than usual about the nature the reaction. This experiment is fodder for a good deal of theoretical speculation that I shall now indulge in. This is also an experiment that Ed Storms would not be interested it. Where those actually neutrons that were detected or were they Exotic Neutral Particles? It could have been possible that the palladium contained a large amount of metalized hydrogen sheltered in the cracks (aka nanocavities) produced under high hydrogen loading. They were probably neutrons. When the palladium vaporized, the explosion could have liberated those metalized hydrogen nanoparticles and gave them a both high velocity and kinetic energy directed toward the copper block. Metalized hydrogen is protected by a magnetic coating produced by "Hole superconductivity". This is the same monopole flux line shielding mechanism that enables the water crystal discovered by Mark LeClair to survive high energy impact with a substrate in high efficiency cavitation bubble collapse. This magnetic shield might have enabled the metalized hydrogen to erode the copper block in the same way that a cavitation jet erodes copper in cavitation bubble collapse. Another possible source of neutrons is hot fusion as seen in the cavitation experiments of LeClair. There could have been a hot fusion reaction generated at the interface between the metalized hydrogen and the copper surface. This copper surface should have been analyzed to see if there was any transmutation and/or activation radiation generated by the explosion and high speed projection of the metalized hydride into the copper as occurs in cavitation. In a collision between a metalized hydride and another substrate element or compound, even diamond, it is the substrate that gives way and is disrupted and not the metalized hydride. The surface of the metalized hydride can withstand supernova levels of energy, pressure, and temperature. A millerterized application of this experiment would be to coat a bullet with metalized hydride and use that bullet to penetrate armor to great depth. That impenetrable magnetic shield that LENR engenders has many uses. In the long term, such a shield could be more valuable that excess heat production. Another insight gleaned from this experiment is that the metalized hydride was stable for a considerable amount of time. After preparation, the palladium foil was transported to LANL and the compression experiment was setup. Now all that had to take a lot of time.
