Table 1 Appendix 3 on page 42 of the Rossi report is the EDS analysis of the Fuel and Ash with natural abundance comparison. Look particularly at the Li-6 counts in the ash.
This Table should tell us what is happening in the reaction, if it can be believed but so far, an important detail seems to be overlooked. There seems to be a lot of lithium 6 showing up in the ash - too much for the source to be lithium 7. In other words, there is new lithium coming into the ash from some other source, what is that source? Correction - all we can be sure of is that there is an EDS signal being attributed to lithium-6 but it may be relic of incomplete software, since all the signals are assigned by what is essentially a library of known correlations. For instance, if there was a new isomer or species in this reaction, not known previously, then the software would probably assign it to the closest near-miss which could be Li-6. This analysis is open to interpretation of course, since it is based on ratios and they state that various particles vary from place to place. But in general, if we look at nickel in the ash and in fuel, the total counts are nearly identical for nickel in both cases - but the isotopes have shifted drastically. Now compare total nickel to total lithium. That ratio has shot up 300% in favor of Li - and relative to counts between fuel and ash and this is happening at the same time the isotope ratio is shifting. But in general, when compared to nickel counts, net lithium counts has tripled and most of that is probably in the form of "new" Li-6 (not coming from Li-7) or else attributable a new species which the EDS is assigning as Li-6. What is the source of this "new" Li-6 if it is not a relic of instrumentation? The available suspects are aluminum, oxygen and hydrogen....
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