Slow neutrons react with a large variety of isotopes. e.a., boron naturally occurring isotopes, cadmium, hafnium, used in fission reactor control to absorb them. They do leave a radioactive isotope which frequently emits energetic EM radiation in its decay.
That is not typical of LENR. I would say the slow neutron reaction is like a regular 2-body reaction with low momentum during a cold temperature reaction with a “target” isotope exhibiting the appropriate resonant motion to couple with the slow neutron Bob Cook From: JonesBeene<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2020 9:58 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [Vo]:AIP mentions cold fusion Hi, Well Miley himself was fully invested in the Fusor device (and sold his neutron generating company to Daimler) AFAIK he never mentioned that LENR was involved in that technology and if anyone should know – it is him. The W-L theory predicts extremely low momentum neutrons - which somehow avoid thermalization. Thus they would presimably never escape a reactor. Jones From: Nicholas Palmer<mailto:[email protected]> Here's a voice from the past... Did anyone ever consider using a Farnsworth Fusor as a source of low energy neutrons to catalyse the putative Widom-Larsen pathway to LENR? Nick Palmer Jed Rothwell wrote: QUOTE: Final FY20 Appropriations: National Science Foundation Low-energy nuclear reactions. The House report encourages NSF to “evaluate the various theories, experiments, and scientific literature surrounding the field of LENR,” which is most associated with the pursuit of cold fusion<https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.1881896>. It also directs NSF to “provide a set of recommendations as to whether future federal investment into LENR research would be prudent, and if so, a plan for how that investment would be best utilized.” https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/final-fy20-appropriations-national-science-foundation Nothing will come of this.
