Bob, ORNL is supplying this isotope to others. They are not making it for their own use AFAIK. In fact they are somewhat obligated as a government lab to support private industry in this way. Prior to this, they were actually reselling Russian isotopes at a very high price which benefited the Russian economy. Their Isotope sales division has an online store.
According to Ed Storms, the reaction Ni62 + p = Cu63 produces 5.6 MeV/event of nuclear energy - and on paper it is clean. There must, in fact, be little residual radiation if the results are to be believed. This set of realities and other considerations has convinced Ed that Rossi could be for real, despite his obvious dishonesty in other areas. For 1 kW of nuclear power to be generated, this particular reaction must occur about 10e15 times/sec. If the reaction were not clean there would be severe toxicity and in fact multiple fatalities (dead grad students). Everything fits together except the numerous failings of the actual Lugano experiment. (and the later complete rejection of Rossi by IH ... when if the results were true, they could all be billionaires) BTW - the % enrichment which we find in nature of isotope Ni62 is surprisingly low. It should be higher given its nuclear stability. Also, perhaps the level of enrichment must be high for reliable operation of a reactor - thus the reaction works best with at least a seed of highly enriched isotope. The only problem with this assessment is that IH should have seen the good results and apparently, they did not. They are the only major investor to put their money where their intentions were - and then they backed away. That is damning. Jones bobcook39...@hotmail.com <bobcook39...@hotmail.com> wrote: I doubt that ORNL would start up production of Ni-62 without good reason and based on any questionable patents. Transmutation of Ni to Cu makes no sense to me for any practical purpose. Cu is cheaper than Ni-62. Not only would the fuel have to be doped with Ni-62, the other Ni isotopes measured in the Lagano fuel would have to be sprinkled in (salted) to get the unusual ratios of isotopes observed or eliminated from the orginal fuel load. That would not be easy. Focardi would have to have been blowing smoke or was fooled earlier by the same sort of salting you suggest. I do not consider either Focordi nor the Swedes were duped. Bob Cook ----------------------- From: Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 7:13:50 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Oak Ridge enriching isotopes again Robin, > I fail to see why they would need pure Ni62 for LENR. To be clear - there is no objective proof that LENR does require or even benefits from any specific isotope. This particular one just happens to be the isotope mentioned in the major claim of Rossi's patent - as being the active isotope for proton transmutation of nickel into copper. It is really the one and only detail which is protected by that granted patent. And there are other reasons to focus on it. Supposedly Focardi came up with the explanation for energy gain via proton plus Ni62 fusion. The particular isotope has almost dropped out of view, as of late, and you never hear of it. Curiously, in the Lugano fiasco five years ago, in spectrograph testing done after the event -it was claimed by the Swedish professors that Ni-62 constituted almost 99% of the recovered ash. That would be astounding if true. Yet, the level of purity the found is identical to the isotope sold by ORNL, leading to the suspicion that the Lugano reactor had been "salted" with the isotope. Rossi was the only one allowed to handle to samples on loading and unloading. I believe this exact detail was poised to be a major part of the legal evidence that IH was going to present - had the Lawsuit gone to trial. That could be one reason that a trial was avoided. We are still waiting for these Swedish professors to duplicate that test in order to prove they were not duped. They promised to do this years ago, but have been silent on the results if they did do it.
