In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:05:15 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Speaking of real demos of CANR chain reactions ... in fact a very old demo >with a high death toll... > >IOW, speaking of nuclear "triggers" in the historical sense ... which could >be exactly on point to this subject - via the uber-secret project that led a >few experts at Los Alamos to the realization that deuterium is chemically >active for nuclear reactions ... i.e. when rapidly mixed with the proper >ingredient (photon activated chlorine) D2 can release copious neutrons, >which can be used (and were) as a trigger... > >...that is the one major "secret" from the Manhattan project that was fairly >well kept - the " Kistiakowsky trigger", but as I have opined before, the [snip] Note that according to Mills in his paper http://www.blacklightpower.com/papers/Commercializable%20Paper%20101409.pdf HCl is a Mills catalyst. The reaction D2 + Cl => D + DCl would produce lots of D atoms which could then be shrunk with the help of the catalytic DCl. Once severely shrunken D atoms combined to form shrunken D molecules, the D-D reaction D + D => He3 + n could produce neutrons.
The photo activation helps by ensuring a large population of D and Cl atoms. (The reaction D + Cl2 => DCl + Cl also takes place). See also the Scragg patents (http://www.rexresearch.com/scragg/scragg.htm) e.g. US patent 4,024,715. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
