This kind of work, in which tritium is generated, is very interesting. An important challenge is sorting out whether LENR is involved somehow. Some are quick to invoke normal "plasma fusion" with plasma-discharge systems of this kind. I think that is a reasonable initial assumption if neutron counts are seen that are on the same order as the tritium. I do not recall seeing this happen in the plasma discharge experiments that I've looked at. In general the neutron counts are lower than the tritium by orders of magnitude, when both have been measured at the same time. Here I may simply be ignorant of the literature or forgetting something.
Another possibility is that what is going on in the plasma-discharge experiments involves LENR in some particular way. My current favorite hunch is that the reaction precursors somehow penetrate far into the electron cloud of a lattice site, and that the many electrons to be found there provide a great deal of screening. In addition, the momentum of the resulting reaction, in cases where a gamma would be produced, is perhaps shared with the lattice site itself. In the case of a nickel nucleus, the nucleus would get a good kick with the energies involved, but it would not necessarily go flying off. Eric
