Jones, What is your evidence for your statement: "The Lugano isotope data, even if it could be believed, completely negates the entire scenario since Li-7 is NOT depleted according to the Lugano report - but instead is converted to Li-6. "
What I drew from the report was the only thing that can be concluded was that the 7Li is more commensurate to the 6Li in the ash as compared to the fuel. There was no mass assay that determined how much total Li was present in the ash compared to the fuel. We know that physically, a lot of the Li will be on the walls of the alumina tube, so we don't have any idea of the absolute depletion of Li mass in the reaction. While it is possible that the 7Li is converted to 6Li, it is only one of the possibilities. The ICP-MS analysis is a full volume analysis and showed both Li isotopes near equal in percentage in the ash. How these isotopes became nearly equal is just blind speculation at the moment without further experimental data. All of the possibilities for the ratio change from fuel to ash should be laid out and the plausibility of each examined. Bob
