It is about low energy gamma radiation, I think. Only experiment will show if this radiation is really present- (all the time ?) when the HotCat works as Stoyan says or not. Peter
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]>wrote: > Sargoytchev mentions the Demron technology for high energy gamma > reduction. The Demron specification says that it reduces the 662 keV gamma > from 137Cs by only 1% (not an attenuation factor of .01, an attenuation > factor of 0.99; I.E. almost no attenuation) which would be expected. High > energy gamma (and 662 keV is high energy) is hard to shield. The alpha and > beta effectiveness of the Demron is similar to any plastic. In the HotCat, > the alpha, beta and low energy gamma (which the Demron claims to shield) > will not make it out of the solid materials that comprise the structure > (not even the stainless steel). However, if the reaction were producing > high energy gamma (above about 100-200 keV), it would be detectable outside > the HotCat. If a reaction product gamma were being produced at 6 MeV, it > would go through the HotCat materials (and easily the Demron) with almost > no attenuation. > > The HotCat cannot use lead because it would melt, and nowhere was lead > seen in Penon's report of HotCat disassembly. If one considers using some > very fine nanopowder concoction for a shield, you would also have to insure > that this shield is placed well away from the heat because the > nanoparticles will melt at a temperature far below that of the bulk > material. I don't believe the HotCat has a super-shield for high energy > gamma - there is no evidence for this at all; only imagination. I believe > the HotCat only produces very low energy gammas that easily get thermalized > in the stainless. > > Bob > > > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Readers, >> >> My blog muse is very silent these days; we have told almost all about the >> LENR problem while the great fine surprises of LENR solutions are coming >> fast but not so fast as we wish. >> >> Therefore it was my pleasure to publish this message from my friend >> Stoyan: >> >> >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2014/02/stoyan-sargoytchev-about-gamma.html >> >> It belongs in the same time to the problem and to the solution. Thank >> you, dear Stoyan! >> Peter >> >> -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
