Widom Larsen postulate that the neutrons are produced when a proton
captures an electron. The process is endothermic (energy must be supplied
or it will not occur) so the neutrons initially have extremely low energy
("cold"). As a result they are nearly stationary and don't leave the
material. Also the reaction cross-section with nearby nuclei is high
leading to a cascade of nuclear effects that product the observed energy.ymmv Jeff On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Robert Lynn <robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com > wrote: > Neutrons are hard to shield and when absorbed can produce radioactive > materials. Could this be a potentially killer blow to otherwise safe LENR? > > Fission reactors typically create up to 10^13 neutrons per cm² per second, > and this experiment was only making about 200000 per s, over (I assume) the > full 4Pi sphere but was also probably only a few watts of power. If this > is a standard feature of LENR and is scaled up to 10's or 100's of kW for > transport applications maybe we are looking at more like 10^10 per s will > it be ultimately be dangerous? The oil industry will be looking for > exactly this sort of flaw to keep themselves in business. > > Why haven't other researchers seen Neutrons, were they not looking or are > they at too low an energy or flux to be easily detected? > > On 17 August 2012 22:10, Akira Shirakawa <shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On 2012-08-17 20:39, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: >> >>> Absolute confirmation of Nuclear Fusion from deuterated titanium using >>> shock >>> procedure >>> - Mark Prelas: 62Million Neutrons within 5 minutes -- Fully reproducible >>> >> >> I'm not a theoretician (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but isn't >> this *not* predicted by the W-L theory? >> >> Cheers, >> S.A. >> >> >
