Note that the enrichment process for Ni-62, invented by the Russians at Kurchatov (after it became a "capitalist tool") gives an 80% enrichment, using the same kind of ultracentrifuge device employed in similar enrichment activities. If the following explanation is accurate, Forbes and other journalists will have a field day with the political implications of this unfolding story.
Rossi, if we can believe him, could simply have found this exact Russian
resource for buying Ni-62 at a reasonable price back in 2000 or before. This
would actually make his role secondary in a way, to that of the Russians -
but of course, this suggestion is nothing but speculation at the moment.
To continue connecting the dots, instead of going ahead with the process of
neutron irradiation, which they use at Kurchatov - to convert that enriched
isotope to Ni-63 (and which would be unavailable to Rossi) - essentially
what AR did was to discover that when this enriched isotope Ni-62 at about
80% enrichment was reacted with hydrogen, using potassium in the Mills' type
of reaction, one could end up with a similar end result of lots of energy
with no gammas. Actually the end result is better in many ways than
beta-voltaics, since much more net energy is harnessed than with charge
capture alone.
This means that a prompt gamma does not appear when the Ni-62 absorbs a
virtual neutron. Why not?
My answer to that is essentially we have a two-part reaction involving first
- energy from reversible proton fusion RPF, as described in earlier postings
here. This creates a local energy deficit in a mass of nickel hydride but it
has come from very small energy deposits (QCD color charge) over relatively
extended time periods.
IOW the energy gain from RPF operates to deplete the average mass of a large
number of protons (about a pictogram, more or less) by about 6-8 MeV total.
At that point, a subsequent conversion to Ni-63 happens - which is, in
effect, a QM "bookkeeping" reaction for energy already lost to RPF.
In fact, it can be surmised that RPF does not happen without the bookkeeping
reaction in place, which means it does not happen easily without highly
enriched Ni-62. Somehow the Ni-62 being a proton conductor in a "nanometric"
layer is affecting the average mass protons as they are absorbed as
hydrides. Thus the Rossi reaction is very difficult for anyone to pull off,
without the isotope source. DGT may also know this but not Celani.
As noted before, Ni-62 is a singularity in the periodic table, being the one
isotope with the highest bonding energy of all isotopes of all elements.
This is a trait which seems counter-intuitive for allowing hydrogen to shed
mass in RPF, but the coincidences of the Rossi story point to this
conclusion.
If - in fact it turns out that Rossi is using this particular nickel
isotope, and from the Kurchatov source, there is a good chance the above
scenario is a fairly accurate portrayal of what is happening.
Jones
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Possible Way To Industrial Production of Nickel-63 and the
Prospects of Its Use
Tsvetkov, et al. Research-Industrial Enterprise "BIAPOS",
Moscow, Russia,
Formerly "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia
Nickel-63 (a pure beta-emitter with a half-life of 100
years) is one of the
most promising radionuclides that can be used in miniature
autonomous electric
power sources with a service life of above 30 years (nuclear
batteries)
working on the betavoltaic effect. This effect is analogous
to the photoelectric
effect, with the difference that electron-hole pairs are
produced in a semiconductor
with p-n-transition under the action of beta-particles
rather than optical
radiation.
In addition to 63Ni, among all variety of radionuclides only
tritium 3H
(half-life 12.3 years; Emax = 18.6 keV; Eav = 5.7 keV) and
promethium l47Pm
(half-life 2.62 years; Emax = 230 keV; Eav = 65 keV) can be
considered as
candidates for the betavoltaic converter....
All other beta-emitters are unsuitable for any of several
reasons:
1) accompanying gamma-radiation;
2) strong bremsstruhlung, which requires the use of radiation
protection;
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