The fixation on neutrons is part of the training imposed on nuclear physicists and engineers. But there is another less traveled road to the initiation of nuclear reactions that has been under the radar in the nuclear community.
Many years ago, it was shown that high energy lasers could induce fission and fusion if the power of the laser pulse was strong enough http://physics.aps.org/story/v5/st3 Photo induced nuclear reactions begin to occur when the power density of the infrared light reached just under 10^^20 W/cm2. Since the time of unaided photo nuclear reactions were demonstrated, it has been shown that gold nano-particles can amplify and concentrate infrared light by 9 orders of magnitudes. Now with gold Nano-particles, it is logical to expect nuclear reactions will occur when laser light with an intensity of 10^^10 W/cm2 to 10^^12 W/cm2 will occur. That is 9 orders of magnitude less than unaided photo irradiation. Experiments using gold nano-particles in water suspension irradiated by laser light of this reduced level of intensity do in fact occur. Since then, light amplification by nano-structures has been observed to reach a top end of 10 to the 15 power. The idea is that if more and more nano-particle infrared photo concentration is applied to a system, then less and less infrared photon energy will produce a nuclear reaction. With additional tweaking of the nano-structure shapes and topology, it is not unreasonable to expect that 10 to the 20th power concentration and application might be reached. That means that it is reasonable to assume that nuclear reactions will occur if UNAPMLIFIED infrared light were to interact with properly engineered nanostructures. Increased infrared photo amplification is what has been done in the design of the Ni/H reactor. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:09 PM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Low Energy Nuclear Reactions? > > by A.D. Polosa (Dip. Fisica, Sapienza Universita di Roma), R. Faccini > (Dip. Fisica, Sapienza Universita di Roma) > > Thursday, 16 January 2014 from 16:30 to 17:30 (Europe/Zurich) > at CERN ( 503-1-001 - Council Chamber ) > > Description > > After an introduction to the controversial problem of Low Energy Nuclear > Reactions (LENR) catalyzed by neutrons on metallic hydride surfaces we > present the results of an experiment, made in collaboration with ENEA Labs > in Frascati, to search neutrons from plasma discharges in electrolytic > cells. > > The negative outcome of our experiment goes in the direction of ruling out > those theoretical models expecting LENR to occur in condensed matter > systems under specific conditions. > > Our criticism on the theoretical foundations of such models will also be > presented. > > https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=294134 >
