Stefano Landi: 1) in your conference in Italy you said about a procedure of Ni isotop enrichment. Is this in agreement what the results of the Itp report? The amount of Ni isotopes before the run do not seem enriched as compared to the natural Ni isotopes composition
Rossi: 1- At those times I could not say other than what I said, due to IP constraints. As a matter of fact, the enrichment system is the process made by means of the ECat. Nevertheless, the results from the test have gone well Beyond what we found before during our internal R&D. As I said, now we are studying how to reconcile, but during these last days we arrived to understand possible explications; much more study is necessary, though. - - -- So maybe the hotcat wasn't running OUT of fuel at 32 days : it had completed the Ni isotope conversion (to a greater degree than Rossi expected), and was then running at peak efficiency? This could explain the improvement in efficiency over the first half, when the input power could be reduced.
