Complete BARC-1500 "Studies in Cold Fusion" Report Republished Electronically
Historic Research on Neutron and Tritium Production from LENR experiments
at India's Largest Nuclear Research Laboratory
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/archives/1989BARC1500Report/BARC1500.htm
Preface to the New Energy Times Reprint of the BARC-1500 Report
It is appropriate that an international conference on "cold fusion," now
called Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) is being held next month at Salt
Lake City, Utah, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the historic
Fleischmann-Pons University of Utah announcement which was first made there.
It is obvious by now that experiments on this field have been repeated by
several groups in the world and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with
the observations.
If the observed phenomena do not fit within our text-book understanding of
nuclear phenomena, that is a problem for science to solve. Nature
demonstrates many phenomena which we don't yet understand. This does not
mean we should not explore further.
The need to satisfy peer reviews, (in fact there could be no perfect peers
at any time in any subject,) should not come in the way of continued
exploration. We are glad that an archive is being created to mark this
occasion. We congratulate Steven B. Krivit and New Energy Times for this
initiative.
- Dr. P. K. Iyengar, Chairman (retired), Atomic Energy Commission, India
February 23, 2009
- M. Srinivasan, Associate Director (retired), Physics Group, Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre (BARC), India
February 23, 2009
