The production of neutrons may well be avoidable if the reaction is properly designed. As a model, Rossi has been purifying his reaction for more than a year. My guess is that the use of Deuterium is conducive to neutron production. If the deuterium ion enters into the nucleus of the substrate lattice atom, the resultant combined nucleus will expel any excess neutrons if many excess neutrons are introduced into the nucleus. However, if a very low neutron carrying isotope is used as a substrate in the supporting lattice, then the added neutron from deuterium would be accepted in the final nuclear product because no excess neutrons would have been assembled. It is easier all the way around to use hydrogen and stay strictly with proton fusion.
Axil On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Akira Shirakawa <[email protected]>wrote: > On 2012-08-18 01:11, Axil Axil wrote: > >> The hot fusion people and the nuclear physicist crowd will not believe >> that LENR is real unless they see lots of neutrons; this is a good >> political type experiment. >> > > I have to bring some potentially bad news. I've just been told that this > Ti-D neutron claim is for a hot fusion reaction based on fractofusion that > was discovered and replicated years ago. See the following bibliography > (I'm copying and pasting from a private email, I haven't found these for > myself): > > 1. Menlove, H.O., et al. Reproducible neutron emission measurements from >> Ti metal in pressurized D2 gas. in Anomalous Nuclear Effects in >> Deuterium/Solid Systems, "AIP Conference Proceedings 228". 1990. Brigham >> Young Univ., Provo, UT: American Institute of Physics, New York. p. 287. >> >> 2. Menlove, H.O. High-sensitivity measurements of neutron emission from >> Ti metal in pressurized D2 gas. in The First Annual Conference on Cold >> Fusion. 1990. University of Utah Research Park, Salt Lake City, Utah: >> National Cold Fusion Institute. p. 250. >> >> 3. Menlove, H.O. and M.C. Miller, Neutron-burst detectors for cold-fusion >> experiments. Nucl. Instr. Methods Phys. Res. A, 1990. 299: p. 10. >> >> 4. Menlove, H.O., et al., Measurement of neutron emission from Ti and Pd >> in pressurized D2 gas and D2O electrolysis cells. J. Fusion Energy, 1990. >> 9(4): p. 495. >> >> 5. Menlove, H.O., et al., The measurement of neutron emission from Ti >> plus D2 gas. J. Fusion Energy, 1990. 9: p. 215. >> >> 6. Mengoli, G., et al. Tritium and neutron emission in conventional and >> contact glow discharge electrolysis of D2O at Pd and Ti cathodes. in Second >> Annual Conference on Cold Fusion, "The Science of Cold Fusion". 1991. Como, >> Italy: Societa Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, Italy. p. 65. >> >> 7. Seeliger, D., et al. Evidence of neutron emission from a titanium >> deuterium system. in Second Annual Conference on Cold Fusion, "The Science >> of Cold Fusion". 1991. Como, Italy: Societa Italiana di Fisica, Bologna, >> Italy. p. 175. >> > > Is this really related to LENR? Why and how was it presented during > ICCF-17? > > Cheers, > S.A. > >
