It is in the same forum. http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=62
________________________________ From: Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, January 21, 2011 1:03:24 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Removing All Doubt After some digging I think I got close to the source of the "30% copper" assertion. The following items are from Rossi's blog. First: Question from "William": William >January 20th, 2011 at 9:01 AM ... elided his first three questions ... > >4) I read a comment on another forum claiming that in one of your cells after >six months of operation the remaining nickel powder was 30% copper. Can you >confirm this? > Rossi's answer: Andrea Rossi >January 20th, 2011 at 10:14 AM Mr William: >... >4- No >... > Further message from "William", apparently in response to this denial: William >January 20th, 2011 at 11:30 AM >Hello Mr. Rossi, >I found the following comment. >Dear Pierre, >Thank you for your important questions, here are the answers: >1- the Ni powder I utilized were pure Ni, no copper . At the end of the >operations in the reactor the percentage of copper was integrally bound to the >amount of energy produced. A charge which has worked for 6 monthes, 24 hours >per >day, at the end had a percentage of Cu superior to 30% >2- About the Ni isotopes: the isotopes after the operations were substantially >changed in percentage. We are preparing a campaign of analysys with a >Secondary >Ions Mass Spectrometer at the University of Padua (Italy), at the end of which >the data will be published on the Journal Of Nuclear Physics. >Warm Regards, >Andrea I saw no further response from Rossi on this, and I don't know what the "other forum" in which his original comment appeared might have been. Google didn't turn it up for me. Make if this what you will; it's certainly not unambiguous -- looks kind of like an assertion followed by a retraction, but other interpretations are possible. On 01/21/2011 12:07 PM, Jones Beene wrote: >From:Stephen A. Lawrence > >Ø So, what's the story here? How can the neutron balance work out? How can >he >have ended up with 30% of the nickel transmuted into (reasonably stable) >copper? > > > >The short answer is that this percentage must be way off, or there has been a >mis-translation… it is possible that they chose a microgram sample which was >visually different – and that it had a wildly distorted ratio, for instance, >and >following that – an incorrect assumption followed. > >I see now way for such a large ratio over the entire mass of spent fuel, but >even one percent is adequate for testing, and any big shift in copper isotopes >will be extremely meaningful. Less so with the nickel. > >Jones >
