Eric - perhaps the original post should have been phrased as “zero believable evidence”… instead of zero evidence. The paper does constitute putative “evidence” after all – actually rather convincing if it could be taken at face value.
Romodanov is a mystery. If what he was seeing and reporting was accurate (tritium from hydrogen in very significant quantities) – it should have led to a lucrative method for producing an extremely valuable isotope, especially to some countries. Aside from the science involved, this paper has dollar signs (actually Rials) written all over it. Yet the work apparently fizzled after 2003. Also, the paper is almost “too convincing” to be accurate given what Claytor has published (using deuterium). In the ensuing years, there has been no outside replication of Romodanov, or progress which shows up in the public record. Plus, it is no secret that there are thousands of severely underpaid, top-level scientists in Russia who are desperate to move to the West, under almost any pretense … they have little way to show off their wares other than slick papers, especially if they come with an implied threat. In short, a cynic might opine that this is more a feeler for continuing employment in a more hospitable locale, as it is bona fide science. But it would be instructive to know more of the story. From: Eric Walker Tritium is radioactive, so the evidence of radioactivity in the ash of the Ni-H reaction is nonzero…. Romodanov et al., "Nuclear reactions in condensed media and X-ray," Seventh International Conference on Cold Fusion, 1998.
