In reply to mix...@bigpond.com's message of Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:06:41 +1100: Hi, [snip] >*IMO* Rossi just said that enrichment took place to throw others off the trail, >and because he had only just discovered that reactions with isotopes other than >Ni62 & Ni64 produce gammas which can't be easily shielded. >Since he wasn't seeing the gammas, he simply said that they enriched the Ni >(rather than admit that he didn't really have a clue what was going on).
I should add that at the time he was also trying to publicly defend his previous statement that Cu was produced, and that the copper that had been found had an isotope ratio close to natural . Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
