In reply to Nick Palmer's message of Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:27:09 -0000: Hi Nick, [snip] >Robin wrote: > ><<..Well maybe not quite. The problem with this is that the general public >only >understands one kind of nuclear. I'm afraid that educating them in the >subtleties is going to take a while.>> > >Do we know what, if any, radiation is created by this process? Specifically, >are any long lived radioactive isotopes made and if so to what degree are >they beta/alpha emitters or give off gamma rays?
No long lived radioisotopes AFAIK with the possible exception of Ni59. Possibly some very short lived ones while the process is actually running, but these are contained and you can wait for them to decay before opening it up. Rossi has said that there aren't any (which is also quite possible). In truth however more testing has to be done to determine whether or not any are produced over longer runs. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
