On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
Maybe it is, as the slides have a purpose - but I doubt that it can be the > end-of-story, because even if it is true and the other four ways to > disintegrate the deuteron are absent, O-P does not explain the doubling of > gas molecules. More likely, it could be both partly true and incomplete. > If Yushino's and Muzuno's findings are not artifact, I'm thinking OP might be going on. I don't have a clear sense of whether it would be the primary source of heat. If there is OP, there will also be fast protons, which might cause spallation reactions with nearby deuterons: http://i.imgur.com/cATIdcT.png Note that if this happens, and OP is the main source of the heat, such spallation reactions destroy the fuel. Also, there would be lots of ~ 180 keV (and higher) beta particles from the decay of neutrons and neutron-rich radioisotopes, and possibly gammas from radiative capture. Eric
