There may not be any transmutation of Ni at all. Read Norman Cook's paper from ICCF-18. There could be isotope dependent depletion of Ni due to fusion-fission or just fission. This would completely change the isotope ratios with no shuttling between one Ni isotope and any other. The Ni transmutation is probably less probable than what Norman Cook proposes. Rossi apparently raves about Norman's theory.
Bob Higgins On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Robert Ellefson <[email protected]> wrote: > Er, > > s/Ni68/Ni62/g > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Ellefson [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 5:02 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Vo]:Intermediate products of isotope shifting reaction appear > to > be > > absent > > > > > > One observation that I'm noting in reviewing the data is the remarkably > > complete conversion of nickel isotopes to Ni68, (from 3.9% in the > starting > > fuel to 98.7% in the ash) and the corresponding nearly-complete > transition > > of lithium-6 from 8.6% fuel to 92.1% ash abundance ratios. Given that > the > > ash sample was taken at an arbitrarily-defined time point, which happened > > while the operating conditions of the reaction were stable, if not > > improving, then I believe this indicates that the reaction is a cyclic > one, > > which decays to the measured ash isotope ratios while the reaction is > > stopping. > > > > If the reaction were based on a linear consumption of reactants, then it > > would be truly miraculous to have stopped the reaction and sampled the > ash > > just when Nickel-68 had reached 98.7 enrichment. Given that there was no > > trending reduction in the output power prior to the ash sampling, I think > > this clearly indicates that we were not approaching the depletion point > of > > the reactants, and that the heat must be produced as part of a durable > > cycle. This could indicate a much, much longer-lasting fuel charge is > > possible than the 6 months figure which has been floating around without > > apparent basis-in-fact. > > > > -Bob Ellefson > > > > >
