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TERM PAPER PRESENTATION 
ON 
ANALYSIS ON NUCLEAR COLD 
FUSION REACTION AND IT’S 
FUTURE ASPECTS 
At 
Rajasthan 
Submitted by- Anurag Bhattacharjee 
(B.Tech-Chemical), 3rd Sem 
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CERTIFICATE 
This is to certify that ANURAG BHATTACHARJEE ,student of B.Tech 
Chemical Engineering has carried out the work presented in the project of the term 
paper Entitled “NUCLEAR COLD FUSION REACTION AND IT’S FUTURE 
ASPECTS” as part of Second- Year programme of Bachelor of Technology in 
chemical engineering from Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity 
University Rajasthan, under my supervision. 
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DATE:26/09/2014 
MRS. SHIKHA SINGH MITTAL 
REPORT GUIDE 
ASET, AUR 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I owe a great many thanks many people who helped and supported me during 
the writing of this Term paper. 
My deepest thanks to Lecturer, Mrs Shikha Singh Mittal the Guide of the project 
for guiding and correcting various documents of mine with attention and care. She 
has taken pain to go through the project and make necessary correction as and 
when needed. 
I would also thank my Institution- “AMITY UNIVERSITY RAJASTHAN” 
and my faculty members without whom this project would have been a distant 
reality. I also extend my heartfelt thanks to my family and well wishers. 
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ABSTRACT-
Nuclear Energy is the need of the hour as far as future energy resources are concerned. As 
compared to other renewable and eco-friendly energy sources like solar energy, wind energy, 
tidal energy , it is not entirely dependent on factors like geographical location, intensity of 
light/sunlight, weather conditions etc. In 2012, 13% of world’s electricity is provided by 
nuclear power stations. 
Nuclear Energy is basically obtained from two process – 1.Fission and 2.Fusion 
In the process of fission, a heavy nuclei atom like that of uranium splits up into two or more 
smaller nuclei atom 
when collided with fast moving neutrons giving out a large quantity of energy. This energy can 
be controlled and utilized in a systematic manner and that’swhy there are many successfully 
operating fission plants in the world. 
But nuclear fission plants has also some major disadvantages like –disposal of nuclear waste, 
scarce availability of raw material, radiation leakage, critical maintenance conditions and many 
more. 
On the contrary, in case of fusion lighter nuclei atoms combine to form heavy nuclei atom. In 
this process they require extreme pressure and temperature just like inside the sun but artificially 
this is made possible with the help of lasers, thermonuclear fusion or some other technique. The 
major advantages of fusion over fission power plants is that it’s wastes are safe, renewable, raw 
material are cheap and also operating cost is much less. But this techniques are still under many 
speculations and research due it’s peculiar requirements. 
For this vary reason, scientists and researchers are trying to make this process possible at room 
temperature for many decades as if it is done successfully, then it would be the greatest 
achievement of mankind in this century as it would become the biggest renewable and eco-friendly 
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energy source of our future. 
i. ABBREVIATIONS USED-
a) LENR- Low energy nuclear reactions 
b) CANR- Chemically assisted nuclear reactions 
c) LANR- Lattice assisted nuclear reactions 
d) CMNS- Condensed matter nuclear science 
e) LDX- Levitated dipole experiment 
f) SPAWAR- Space and Naval warfare systems centre 
g) ENEA- Energy and sustainable economic development 
h) NASA- National aeronautics and space administration 
i) E-CAT- Energy catalyzer 
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ii. TABLE FOR FIGURE-S, 
NO FIG. NO.- NAME OF FIG. - PAGE NO. – 
1 1.1 Schematic diagram of N.plant 3 
2 1.2 M.C. fusion reactor 7 
3 2.1 Basic fusion reaction process 10 
4 3.1 1 Mw fusion plant 16 
5 3.2 Inner Ni-H lattice 19 
INDEX -
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Page No. 
I. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………....1 
II. LITURATURE SURVEY………………………………………………….9 
III. CURRENT RESEARCH ………………………………………………..16 
IV. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS……………27 
V. BIBLOGRAPHY……………………………………………………….....29 
VI. REFERENCES…………………………………………………………....30
CHAPTER- 1 
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iii. INTRODUCTION – 
In the contemporary world where there is huge requirement of energy resources, crude oil 
obtained from the fossils and coal are the major sources of energy to us. But while using these 
resources, even if in a very systematic and judicious manner we have to remember one 
important thing that all these natural resources are limited and will surely get exhausted 
some day. Besides this, the venomous gasses produced by burning these resources also cannot 
be overlooked as far as environmental consequences are concerned. 
So we have to think, search and swap to some better eco-friendly, cheap and viable alternatives 
in order to meet our future energy requirements. So, one of this kind of unique but efficient 
alternative in this field is the nuclear cold fusion reaction. 
But before we proceed, we should have a brief but comprehensive knowledge about nuclear 
energy. 
NUCLEAR ENERGY:- 
It basically refers to the energy that is being harnessed from the core of Atomic nucleus. In 
other words it is the energy that remains trapped inside an atom i.e the most basic unit of 
matter. 
It’s major advantages are- 
1.SAFETY-The major advantage of fusion reactors will not produce high-level nuclear wastes 
like their fission counterparts, so disposal will be less of a problem. 
2.ECONOMIC VIABILITY- In addition, it will be cheap as Deuterium can be readily extracted 
from seawater, and excess tritium can be made in the fusion reactor itself from lithium, which 
is readily available in the Earth's crust. 
3.CLEAN- No combustion occurs in nuclear power (fission or fusion), so there is no air pollution. 
4.LESS NUCLEAR WASTE-Fusion reactors will not produce high-level nuclear wastes like their 
fission counterparts, so disposal will be less of a problem. In addition, the wastes will not be of 
weapons-grade nuclear materials as is the case in fission reactors. 
Now again, one of the laws of the universe is that matter and energy can neither be created nor 
destroyed. But they can be changed in form. Matter can be changed into energy. Albert 
Einstein’s famous mathematical formula E = mc2 explains this. The equation says: E [energy]
equals m [mass] times c2 [c stands for the speed or velocity of light]. This means that it is mass 
multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. 
Later, scientists used Einstein's equation as the key to unlock atomic energy and to create atomic 
bombs. An atom's nucleus can be split apart. This is known as fission. When this is done, a 
tremendous amount of energy in the form of both heat and light is released by the initiation of a 
chain reaction. This energy, when slowly released, can be harnessed to generate electricity. But, 
when it is released all at once, it results in a tremendous explosion as in an atomic bomb. 
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In case of fission, 
Uranium is the main element required to run a nuclear reactor where energy is extracted. 
Uranium is mined from many places around the world. It is processed (to get enriched uranium, 
i.e. the radioactive isotope) into tiny pellets. These pellets are loaded into long rods that are put 
into the power plant's reactor. Inside the reactor of an atomic power plant, uranium atoms are 
split apart in controlled chain reaction. Other fissile material includes plutonium and thorium. 
In a chain reaction, particles released by the splitting of the atom strike other uranium atoms and 
split them. The particles released by this further split other atoms in a chain process. In nuclear 
power plants, control rods are used to keep the splitting regulated, so that it does not occur too 
fast. These are called Moderators. 
The chain reaction gives off heat energy. This heat energy is used to boil heavy water in the core 
of the reactor. So, instead of burning a fuel, nuclear power plants use the energy released by the 
chain reaction to change the energy of atoms into heat energy. The heavy water from around the 
nuclear core is sent to another section of the power plant. Here it heats another set of pipes filled 
with water to make steam. The steam in this second set of pipes rotates a turbine to generate 
electricity. If the reaction is not controlled, you could have an atomic bomb.
FIG: 1.1 
But in atomic bombs, almost pure pieces of uranium-235 or plutonium, of a precise mass and 
shape, must be brought together and held together with great force. These conditions are not 
present in a nuclear reactor. 
The reaction also creates radioactive material. This material could hurt people if released, so it is 
kept in a solid form. A strong concrete dome is built around the reactor to prevent this material 
from escaping in case of an accident. 
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Experiences with nuclear programmes differ and the future of nuclear power remains uncertain 
because of public reaction/fear. But in the past few years the capacity of operating nuclear plants 
has increased more than twentyfold. There are more than 400 nuclear power plants providing 
about 7% of the world's primary energy and about 25% of the electric power in industrialized 
nations. 
The growth of nuclear power combined with the shift from carbon-heavy fuels such as coal and oil to 
carbon-light gas contribute to the gradual ‘de-carbonization’ of the world energy system. 
Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Japans Hiroshima and Nagasaki Blast and other nuclear accidents have 
increased the fear of harnessing nuclear fission energy. Another issue with international and local 
implications is the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes: both from nuclear reactors making 
electricity and from the production of military weapons. Earlier disposal practices, such as dumping of 
nuclear waste at sea, have been completely stopped by formal treaty because of environmental concerns 
(and by cessation of furtive scuttling of nuclear submarines). Regimes for transport and temporary 
storage of civil and defence nuclear wastes now function, although sites and designs for permanent 
disposal have yet to be accepted. 
Names of some successfully operating nuclear fission reactors- 
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Country 
In operation Under construction 
Number 
Electr. net 
output 
MW 
Number 
Electr. net 
output 
MW 
Argentina 3 1,627 1 25 
Armenia 1 375 - - 
Belarus - - 1 1.109 
Belgium 7 5,927 - - 
Brazil 2 1,884 1 1,245 
Bulgaria 2 1,906 - - 
Canada 19 13,500 - - 
China 
22 18,056 27 26,756 
(6 reactors in Taiwan) 
Czech Republic 6 3,884 - - 
Finland 4 2,752 1 1,600 
France 58 63,130 1 1,630 
Germany 9 12,068 - - 
Hungary 4 1,889 - - 
India 21 5,308 6 3,907 
Iran 1 915 - - 
Japan 48 42,388 2 1.325
Korea, Republic 23 20,721 5 6,370 
Mexico 2 1,330 - - 
Netherlands 1 482 - - 
Pakistan 3 690 2 630 
Romania 2 1,300 - - 
Russian Federation 33 23,643 10 8,382 
Slovakian Republic 4 1,815 2 880 
Slovenia 1 688 - - 
South Africa 2 1,860 - - 
Spain 7 7,121 - - 
Sweden 10 9,474 - - 
Switzerland 5 3,308 - - 
Taiwan, China 6 5,032 2 2,600 
Ukraine 15 13,107 2 1,900 
United ArabEmirates - - 2 2,690 
United Kingdom 16 9,243 - - 
United Arab Emirates - - 2 2,690 
USA 100 99,081 5 5,633 
Total 437 374,504 70 66,682 
Nuclear power plants world-wide, in operation and under construction, 
IAEA as of 28 August 2014 
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Now, in case of fusion 
Fusion happens when two (or more) nuclei come close enough for the strong nuclear force to 
exceed the electrostatic force and pull them together. This process takes light nuclei and forms a 
heavier one, through a nuclear reaction. For nuclei lighter than iron-56 this is exothermic and 
releases energy. For nuclei heavier than iron-56 this is endothermic and requires an external 
source of energy. Hence, nuclei smaller than iron-56 are more likely to fuse while those heavier 
than iron-56 are more likely to break apart. 
To fuse, nuclei must overcome the repulsive Coulomb force. This is a force caused by the nuclei 
containing positively charged protons which repel via the electromagnetic force. To overcome 
this "Coulomb barrier", the atoms must have a high kinetic energy. There are several ways of 
doing this, including heating or acceleration. Once an atom is heated above its ionization energy, 
its electrons are stripped away, leaving just the bare nucleus: the ion. Most fusion experiments 
use a hot cloud ofions and electrons. This cloud is known as a Plasma. Most fusion reactions 
produce neutrons, which can be detected and degrade materials.
Theoretically, any atom could be fused, if enough pressure and temperature was 
applied. Mankind has studied many high energy fusion reactions, using particles beams. These 
are fired at a target. However, for a power plant, we are currently limited to only the light 
elements. Hydrogen is ideal: because of its small charge, it is the easiest atom to fuse. This 
reaction produces helium. 
Fusion reaction takes place at all times in the sun, which provides us with the solar energy. 
Fusion power is a primary area of research in Plasma physics. This technology was at the 
experimental stage till many decades of nineteenth and twentieth century. 
Possible Methods for achieving fusion - 
1. Thermonuclear fusion 
If the matter is sufficiently heated (hence being plasma), the fusion reaction may occur due to 
collisions with extreme thermal kinetic energies of the particles. In the form of thermonuclear 
weapons, thermonuclear fusion is the only fusion technique so far to yield undeniably large 
amounts of useful fusion energy. Usable amounts of thermonuclear fusion energy released in a 
Controlled manner have yet to be achieved. 
2. Inertial confinement fusion: 
Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a type of fusion energy research that attempts to initiate 
nuclear fusion reactions by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet 
that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium. 
3. Magnetic confinement fusion- 
Tokamak- 
The basic principle of magnetic confinement is to hold plasma fuel in place with magnets and 
then heat it up using a combination of microwaves, radio waves, and particles beams. 
Researchers often do this in a tokamak, a donut-shaped reactor.. As of January 2011 there were 
an estimated 177 tokamak experiments either planned, decommissioned or currently operating, 
worldwide. This method races hot plasma around in a magnetically confined ring. When 
completed, ITER will be the world's largest Tokamak. 
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Stellarator These are twisted rings of hot plasma. Stellarators are distinct from tokamak in that 
they are not azimuthally symmetric. Instead, they have a discrete rotational symmetry, often 
fivefold, like a regular pentagon. Stellarators were developed by Lyman Spitzer in 1950. There 
are four designs: Torsatron, Heliotron, Heliac and Helias. 
(LDX)- These use a solid superconducting torus. This is magnetically levitated inside the 
reactor chamber. The superconductor forms an axisymmetric magnetic field which contains the 
plasma. The LDX was developed between MIT and Columbia University after 2000 by Jay 
Kesner and Michael E. Mauel. 
Magnetic mirror- Developed by Richard F. Post and teams at LLNL in the 1960s. Magnetic 
mirrors reflected hot plasma back and forth in a line. Variations included the magnetic bottle and 
the biconic cusp. A series of well-funded, large, mirror machines were built by the US 
government in the 1970s and 1980s. 
Field-reversed configuration- This device confines a plasma on closed magnetic field lines 
without a central penetration. 
FIG: 1.2 
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Names of some operating Plasma research centers – 
1. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching - at GERMANY 
2. Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology in Greifswald - at GERMANY 
3. Drexel University in Pennsylvania - at UNITED STATES 
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4. University of Orleans – at FRANCE 
5.Plasma Research Centre of Gujarat – at INDIA 
But the major problem with simple fusion is that we don't have the technology to recreate the 
Sun's massive pressures, so researchers have to make up for that by getting hydrogen atoms even 
hotter than the sun does — in the range of hundreds of millions of degrees Fahrenheit. They heat 
up the atoms using various tools, including particle beams, electromagnetic fields such as 
microwaves and radio waves, and lasers. 
The temperatures needed are so hot that the hydrogen fuel becomes a plasma, a state of matter 
that exists when a gas's atoms split into positively and negatively charged particles. Researchers 
have been producing controlled fusion reactions for decades. And that’s the main point from 
where the idea of fusion reaction at room temperature originates and that is the Nuclear Cold 
Fusion Reaction.
CHAPTER- 2 
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iv. LITERATURE SURVEY – 
J. Tandberg,s Experimental work- 
In 1927, Swedish scientist J. Tandberg stated that he had fused hydrogen into helium in 
an electrolytic cell with palladium electrodes. On the basis of his work, he applied for a Swedish 
patent for "a method to produce helium and useful reaction energy".After deuterium was 
discovered in 1932, Tandberg continued his experiments with heavy water. Due to Paneth and 
Peters's retraction, Tandberg's patent application was eventually denied. His application for a 
patent in 1927 was denied as he could not explain the physical process. 
Fleischmann–Pons experiment- 
The most famous cold fusion claims were made by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann in 
1989. After a brief period of interest by the wider scientific community, their reports were called 
into question by nuclear physicists. Pons and Fleischmann never retracted their claims, but 
moved their research program to France after the controversy erupted. 
In mid-March 1989, both research teams were ready to publish their findings, and Fleischmann 
and Jones had agreed to meet at an airport on March 24 to send their papers toNature via FedEx. 
Fleischmann and Pons, however, pressured by the University of Utah, which wanted to establish 
priority on the discovery, broke their apparent agreement, submitting their paper to the Journal 
of Electroanalytical Chemistry on March 11, and disclosing their work via a press release[and 
press conference on March 23. Jones, upset, faxed in his paper to Nature after the press 
conference. 
Fleischmann and Pons' announcement drew wide media attention. Cold fusion was proposing the 
counterintuitive idea that a nuclear reaction could be caused to occur inside a chemically bound 
crystal structure. But the 1986 discovery of high-temperature superconductivity had made the 
scientific community more open to revelations of unexpected scientific results that could have
huge economic repercussions and that could be replicated reliably even if they had not been 
predicted by established conjecture. And many scientists were also reminded of the Mössbauer 
effect, a process involving nuclear transitions in a solid. Its discovery 30 years earlier had also 
been unexpected, though it was quickly replicated and explained within the existing physics 
framework. 
FIG: 2.1 
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Subsequent research 
Cold fusion and hot fusion compared 
COLD FUSION HOT FUSION 
1.Occurs only in special solids. 1. Occurs in plasma or when 
energy is applied. 
2.Responds to modest energy but not required. 2. Requires high energy. 
3.Uses protium (H) or deuterium (D). 3. Uses tritium and deuterium 
4.Makes mostly helium (4He) when D is used. 4. Makes tritium and neutrons. 
5.Produces insignificant radiation. 5 .Produces significant radiation. 
6.Can be initiated in simple devices at high O/I levels. 6. Requires a huge machine to produce 
high O/I levels. 
7.Has been studied for 23 years using about $0.5 B. 7.Has been studied for over 70 years using 
well over $25 B. 
8.Energy generators can be located in each home. 8.The energy generator is huge and must 
be located well away from populations.
Cold fusion research continues today in a few specific venues, but the wider scientific 
community has generally marginalized the research being done and researchers have had 
difficulty publishing in mainstream journals. The remaining researchers often term their field 
LENR or CANR, also LANR,CMNS and Lattice Enabled Nuclear Reactions; one of the reasons 
being to avoid the negative connotations associated with "cold fusion". The new names avoid 
making bold implications, like implying that fusion is actually occurring. Proponents see the new 
terms as a more accurate description of the theories they put forward. 
The researchers who continue acknowledge that the flaws in the original announcement are the 
main cause of the subject's marginalization, and they complain of a chronic lack of funding and 
no possibilities of getting their work published in the highest impact journals. University 
researchers are often unwilling to investigate cold fusion because they would be ridiculed by 
their colleagues and their professional careers would be at risk. In 1994, David Goodstein, a 
professor of physics at Caltech, advocated for increased attention from mainstream researchers 
and described cold fusion as: 
a pariah field, cast out by the scientific establishment. Between cold fusion and respectable 
science there is virtually no communication at all. Cold fusion papers are almost never published 
in refereed scientific journals, with the result that those works don't receive the normal critical 
scrutiny that science requires. On the other hand, because the Cold-Fusioners see themselves as a 
community under siege, there is little internal criticism. Experiments and theories tend to be 
accepted at face value, for fear of providing even more fuel for external critics, if anyone outside 
the group was bothering to listen. In these circumstances, crackpots flourish, making matters 
worse for those who believe that there is serious science going on here. 
A 1991 review by a cold fusion proponent had calculated "about 600 scientists" were still 
conducting research. After 1991, cold fusion research only continued in relative obscurity, 
conducted by groups that had increasing difficulty securing public funding and keeping programs 
open. These small but committed groups of cold fusion researchers have continued to conduct 
experiments using Fleischmann and Pons electrolysis set-ups in spite of the rejection by the 
mainstream community. The Boston Globe estimated in 2004 that there were only 100 to 200 
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researchers working in the field, most suffering damage to their reputation and career. Since the 
main controversy over Pons and Fleischmann had ended, cold fusion research has been funded 
by private and small governmental scientific investment funds in the United States, Italy, Japan, 
and India. 
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COUNTRY SPECIFIC RESEARCH - 
United States 
U.S. Navy researchers at the SPAWAR in San Diego have been studying cold fusion since 
1989. In 2002, they released a two-volume report, "Thermal and nuclear aspects of the Pd/D2O 
system," with a plea for funding. This and other published papers prompted a 2004 Department 
of Energy (DOE) review. 
In August 2003 the U.S. Secretary of Energy Abraham ordered the DOE to organize a second 
review of the field. This was thanks to an April 2003 letter sent by MIT's Peter L. 
Hagelstein, and the publication of many new papers, including the Italian ENEA and other 
researchers in the 2003 International Cold Fusion Conference, and a two-volume book by 
U.S. SPAWAR in 2002. Cold fusion researchers were asked to present a review document of all 
the evidence since the 1989 review. The report was released in 2004. The reviewers were "split 
approximately evenly" on whether the experiments had produced energy in the form of heat, but 
"most reviewers, even those who accepted the evidence for excess power production, 'stated that 
the effects are not repeatable, the magnitude of the effect has not increased in over a decade of 
work, and that many of the reported experiments were not well documented.'". In summary, 
reviewers found that cold fusion evidence was still not convincing 15 years later, and they didn't 
recommend a federal research program. They only recommended that agencies consider funding 
individual well-thought studies in specific areas where research "could be helpful in resolving 
some of the controversies in the field". They summarized its conclusions thus: 
While significant progress has been made in the sophistication of calorimeters since the review 
of this subject in 1989, the conclusions reached by the reviewers today are similar to those found 
in the 1989 review. 
The current reviewers identified a number of basic science research areas that could be helpful in 
resolving some of the controversies in the field, two of which were: 1) material science aspects
of deuterated metals using modern characterization techniques, and 2) the study of particles 
reportedly emitted from deuterated foils using state-of-the-art apparatus and methods. The 
reviewers believed that this field would benefit from the peer-review processes associated with 
proposal submission to agencies and paper submission to archival journals. 
— Report of the (Review of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions), US Department of Energy, 
December 2004 
Cold fusion researchers placed a "rosier spin" on the report, noting that they were finally being 
treated like normal scientists, and that the report had increased interest in the field and caused "a 
huge upswing in interest in funding cold fusion research." However, in a 2009 BBC article on an 
American Chemical Society's meeting on cold fusion, particle physicist Frank Close was quoted 
stating that the problems that plagued the original cold fusion announcement were still 
happening: results from studies are still not being independently verified and inexplicable 
phenomena encountered are being labelled as "cold fusion" even if they are not, in order to 
attract the attention of journalists. 
In February 2012 millionaire Sidney Kimmel, convinced that cold fusion was worth investing in 
by a 19 April 2009 interview with physicist Robert Duncan on the US news-show 60 
minutes, made a grant of $5.5 million to the University of Missouri to establish the Sidney 
Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance (SKINR). The grant was intended to support research 
into the interactions of hydrogen with palladium, nickel or platinum at extreme conditions. In 
March 2013 Graham K. Hubler, a nuclear physicist who worked for the Naval Research 
Laboratory for 40 years, was named director. One of the SKINR projects is to replicate a 1991 
experiment in which Prelas says bursts of millions of neutrons a second were recorded, which 
was stopped because "his research account had been frozen". He claims that the new experiment 
has already seen "neutron emissions at similar levels to the 1991 observation". 
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Italy 
Since the Fleischmann and Pons announcement, the Italian National agency for new 
technologies, ENEA has funded Franco Scaramuzzi's research into whether excess heat can be 
measured from metals loaded with deuterium gas. Such research is distributed across ENEA 
departments, CNRLaboratories, INFN, universities and industrial laboratories in Italy, where the
group continues to try to achieve reliable reproducibility (i.e. getting the phenomena to happen in 
every cell, and inside a certain frame 
of time). In 2006–2007, the ENEA founded a research program which claimed to have found 
excess power up to 500%, and in 2009 ENEA hosted the 15th cold fusion conference. 
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Japan 
Between 1992 and 1997, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry sponsored a "New 
Hydrogen Energy (NHE)" program of US$20 million to research cold fusion. Announcing the 
end of the program in 1997, the director and one-time proponent of cold fusion research Hideo 
Ikegami stated "We couldn't achieve what was first claimed in terms of cold fusion. (...) We can't 
find any reason to propose more money for the coming year or for the future." In 1999 the Japan 
C-F Research Society was established to promote the independent research into cold fusion that 
continued in Japan. The society holds annual meetings. Perhaps the most famous Japanese cold 
fusion researcher isYoshiaki Arata, from Osaka University, who claimed in a demonstration to 
produce excess heat when deuterium gas was introduced into a cell containing a mixture of 
palladium and zirconium oxide, a claim supported by fellow Japanese researcher Akira 
Kitamura of Kobe University and McKubre at SRI. 
India 
In the 1990s, India stopped its research in cold fusion at the Bhabha Atomic Research 
Centre because of the lack of consensus among mainstream scientists and the US denunciation of 
the research. Yet, in 2008, the National Institute of Advanced Studies recommended the Indian 
government to revive this research. Projects were commenced at the Chennai's Indian Institute of 
Technology, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic 
Research. However, there is still skepticism among scientists and, for all practical purposes, 
research is still stopped.
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PUBLICATIONS-The 
ISI identified cold fusion as the scientific topic with the largest number of published papers 
in 1989, of all scientific disciplines. The Nobel Laureate Julian Schwingerdeclared himself a 
supporter of cold fusion in the fall of 1989, after much of the response to the initial reports had 
turned negative. He tried to publish his theoretical paper- ("Cold Fusion: A Hypothesis" 
in Physical Review Letters), but the peer reviewers rejected it so harshly that he felt deeply 
insulted, and he resigned from the American Physical Society(publisher of PRL) in protest. 
The number of papers sharply declined after 1990 because of two simultaneous 
phenomena: scientists abandoning the field and journal editors declining to review new papers, 
and cold fusion fell off the ISI charts. Researchers who got negative results abandoned the field, 
while others kept publishing. A 1993 (paper in Physics Letters A) was the last paper published 
by Fleischmann, and "one of the last reports to be formally challenged on technical grounds by a 
cold fusion skeptic". 
(The Journal of Fusion Technology(FT) ) established a permanent feature in 1990 for cold fusion 
papers, publishing over a dozen papers per year and giving a mainstream outlet for cold fusion 
researchers. When editor-in-chief George H. Miley retired in 2001, the journal stopped accepting 
new cold fusion papers. This has been cited as an example of the importance of sympathetic 
influential individuals to the publication of cold fusion papers in certain journals. 
Cold fusion reports continued to be published in a small cluster of specialized journals 
like (Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry) and (Il Nuovo Cimento). Some papers also 
appeared in (Journal of Physical Chemistry), (Physics Letters A), (International Journal of 
Hydrogen Energy), and a number of Japanese and Russian journals of physics, chemistry, and 
engineering. Since 2005, Naturwissenschaften has published cold fusion papers; in 2009, the 
journal named a cold fusion researcher to its editorial board. 
In the 1990s, the groups that continued to research cold fusion and their supporters established 
(non-peer-reviewed) periodicals such as (Fusion Facts), (Cold Fusion Magazine),(Infinite 
Energy Magazine) and (New Energy Times) to cover developments in cold fusion and other 
fringe claims in energy production that were ignored in other venues. The internet has also 
become a major means of communication and self-publication for CF research.
CHAPTER-3 
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v. CURRENT RESEARCH – 
1. One Mega Watt cold fusion reation plant is now available for common masses- 
The first cold fusion power plant is now available to pre-order. The E-Cat 1MW Plant, which 
comes in a standard shipping container, can produce one megawatt of thermal energy, using 
LENR — a process, often known as cold fusion, that fuses nickel and hydrogen into copper, 
producing energy 100,000 times more efficiently than combustion. It sounds like E-Cat is now 
taking orders for delivery in early 2014, priced fairly reasonably at $1.5 million. 
E-Cat to give its full name, is a technology (and company of the same name) developed by 
Andrea Rossi — an Italian scientist who claims he’s finally harnessed cold fusion. Due to a lack 
of published papers, and thus peer review, and a dearth of protective patents — which you would 
really expect if Rossi had actually discovered cold fusion — the scientific community in general 
remains very wary of Rossi’s claims. 
FIG: 3.1
According to E-Cat, each of its cold fusion reactors measures 20x20x1 centimeters, and you 
stack these individual reactors together in parallel to create a thermal plant. Pictured right is a 
computer-generated render of an E-Cat Home Unit, which is essentially a bunch of reactors 
stacked in a box. The E-Cat 1MW Plant consists of 106 of these units rammed into a standard 
shipping container. For now, this is just a thermal power plant — it produces warm water and 
steam. In theory you could strap an electric generator to the 1MW plant to produce cheap, clean 
power — but for some reason E-Cat doesn’t seem to be talking about that just yet. The fuel cost 
works out to be $1 per megawatt-hour, apparently, which is utterly insane — coal power is 
around $100 per megawatt-hour. 
2. NASA LENR Aircraft and Spaceplanes- 
Doug Wells will also present a paper at the AIAA Aviation 2014 Conference, a Study 
Webinar by Marty Bradley available through the American Institute of Aeronautics and 
Astronautics, and a paper was presented in January, at the 52nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 
by Robert A. McDonald from Cal Poly. 
Thousands upon thousands of savvy people are now grasping that cold fusion is emerging as a 
source of clean energy beyond our most promising dreams, with the power to move humanity 
through our next evolution. With popular cold fusion/LENR science, we are on the verge of an 
epic technological advancement with the concurrent personal, social, economic, environmental, 
spiritual, and philosophical advancements. 
With that change in energetics, the paradigm changes, and we begin building an ecologically 
sustainable society. 
Purpose- 
The purpose of this research is to investigate the potential vehicle performance impact of 
applying the emergent LENR technology to aircraft propulsion systems. 
LENR potentially has over 4,000 times the density of chemical energy with zero greenhouse gas 
or hydrocarbon emissions. This technology could enable the use of an abundance of inexpensive 
energy to remove active design constraints, leading to new aircraft designs with very low fuel 
consumption, low noise, and no emissions. 
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The objectives of this project are to gather as many perspectives as possible on how and where to 
use a very high density energy source for aircraft including the benefits arising from its 
application, explore the performance impacts to aircraft, and evaluate potential propulsion 
system concepts. 
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Background 
LENR is a type of nuclear energy and is expected to be clean, safe, portable, scalable, and 
abundant. The expected benefits make it an ideal energy solution. When it is applied to aircraft, 
LENR removes the environmental impacts of fuel burn and emission from combustion. Excess 
energy could be used to reduce noise so that all three of NASA’s technology goals for future 
subsonic vehicles are either eliminated or addressed. 
Furthermore, aviation impacts almost every part of our daily lives, civilian and military. 
A revolutionary technology like LENR has the potential to completely change how businesses, 
military, and the country operate as a whole, giving a tremendous financial, tactical, and resource 
advantage to anyone that utilizes it in the most effective way. 
High-density energy sources create some unique capabilities as well as challenges for integration 
into aircraft. 
An LENR concept that has reported some success generates heat in a catalyst process that 
combines nickel metal (Ni) with hydrogen gas (H). The initial testing and theory show that 
radiation and radioisotopes are extremely short lived and can be easily shielded.
FIG: 3.2 
Although nuclear fission has been looked at for use in aircraft, LENR is different. LENR has a 
higher energy density and no radioactive by products. 
Success of this research will provide a firm foundation for future research and investment for 
high-density energy source technology integration into aircraft. 
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3. Brilliouin – New Hydrogen Boiler- 
The Brillouin Hew Hydrogen Boiler is the cold fusion powered prototype produced by Brillouin 
Energy Corporation of Berkeley, California and employing a variation of the low energy nuclear 
reaction called Controlled Electron Capture Reaction to generate clean, cheap and efficient 
energy. 
The company does not use the low energy nuclear reaction term to describe the reaction taking 
place inside their device, as they consider cold fusion to be only one step of the controlled 
electron capture reaction process. 
Although not the first company to come forward with a cold fusion powered device, Brillouin 
claims to be ahead of its competitors due its superior understanding of the underlying physics of 
the device.The process fueling the New Hydrogen Boiler is the conversion of hydrogen from 
regular water into helium gas, a process that generates a large amount of thermal energy.The 
reaction starts with an endothermic reaction, a reaction that absorbs heat, and ends with an
exothermic one, generating a huge amount of thermal energy. The temperature and pressure 
required by the reaction to take place are relatively low, and are safe for any chemical and 
industrial setting. The hydrogen is extracted directly from ordinary tap water and is inserted into 
a matrix shaped nickel lattice. The system is then stimulated by the Brillouin proprietary 
electronic pulse generator and the electricity is applied in very small spaces that become the 
metal stress points. This stimulation allows some protons from the hydrogen atom to capture an 
electron and turn into a neutron. This way, a small amount of energy is transferred into mass in 
the neutron. Further electric stimulation of the system creates more neutrons and causes the 
neutrons to combine with the hydrogen atom in order to create deuterium. This transformation 
releases energy. Further stimulation of the system causes some of the neutrons to combine with 
deuterium and form tritium, a process that generates even more energy. 
The neutrons continue to combine with the tritium and form quadrium, releasing more energy as 
heat. Quadrium is not a stable element so it quickly transforms into helium in a process that 
generates a large amount of energy, up to 10 times more than the energy used in all previous 
steps. The resulting thermal energy is absorbed by the metal lattice and can be harnessed using a 
heat exchanger and transferred as heated water or steam. 
The thermal energy produced by this boiler is between 100 and 150 C. It is suitable for 
most water heating requirements, from household heaters to commercial water heaters. An 
improved technology is expected to be able to power electric turbines and generate electricity, 
and be used to create dry steam and power industrial activities. Water is the main fuel used in the 
reaction, as the hydrogen atoms are extracted from regular tap water. The boiler is very fuel 
efficient, Brillouin claims that 1.024 ml of water generates the same amount of energy as 2 48- 
gallon drums of gasoline. The potency of the Controlled Electron Capture Reaction is beyond 
any known chemical reaction and is several orders of magnitude more powerful than any known 
fuel. And besides its huge potency, the reaction is clean and does not create any pollution or 
radioactivity. The reaction consumes hydrogen, but in a very small amount. The nickel involved 
is used only as a reaction chamber and catalyst and is not consumed during the reaction. A very 
important confirmation and a competitive advantage the Brillouin New Hydrogen Boiler has, is 
that the device has been independently verified by 2 prominent scientific organizations and has 
been validated by their reports. Los Almos National Laboratories is one of the third party 
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organizations that conducted experiments on the NHB and concluded that the device has 
consistent and impressive results. They managed to replicate the reaction described by Brillouin 
and expressed their support and confidence in the potential of the discovery. The Brillouin New 
Energy Boiler is the only cold fusion device to be independently validated by a nationally and 
internationally accredited laboratory. 
Dr. Michael McKubre of Stanford Research International, an avid supporter of the LENR 
reaction and theory, has also tested the New Hydrogen Boiler and encountered positive 
results. He subsequently joined their board of advisers, being impressed by the consistency of 
the results. He stated that The Brillouin New Hydrogen Boiler was the first device that could 
replicate the same results multiple times, every time, with no exception. Between 1 and 3 July 
2012, the International Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Symposium (ILENRS-12) took place in 
the United States. A group of scientists from SRI International, led by Michael McKubre 
presented a report entitled “Calorimetric Studies of the Destructive Stimulation of Palladium and 
Nickel Fine Wires” where they introduced an overview of the cold fusion reaction and detailed 
the results of their experiments. The conclusions of this report clearly supported the work of 
Brillouin Energy Corporation and the reliability of their New Hydrogen Boiler. The recent 
developments in the field of cold fusion, with more and more scientists coming forward 
confirming the reality of the reaction and proposing prototypes of cold fusion powered devices, 
have prompted the scientists to reevaluate the Fleischmann – Pons reaction, that was buried 
under the unfortunate title of pathological science for more than 2 decades. The experiments 
conducted by the SRI International scientists focused on systems consisting in fine palladium or 
nickel wires pre-loaded with hydrogen or deuterium. 
The wires were pre-loaded with hydrogen or deuterium using an electrolytic procedure 
developed by SRI. The loaded wires were sealed using chemical methods inside the palladium 
lattice, to avoid the hydrogen atom recombination. The scientists would then use a co-deposition 
technique developed by chemist Mossier-Boss of SPAWAR to deposit the palladium and 
hydrogen on a cathode surface at the same time and form a stable structure. After applying these 
steps, the system was transferred into liquid nitrogen and a cryogenic calorimeter was used to 
quantify the excess energy, while a pulse of current was sent through the loaded palladium wire. 
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After the excess thermal energy was measured, the scientists would analyze the nuclear 
byproducts. 
The SRI International researchers carried out 30 such experiments and confirmed the anomalous 
heat effect exhibited in all demonstrations, in an amount larger than any chemical reaction could 
produce. The goal of the experiments was not only the development of a working prototype, but 
also establishing a solid theoretical framework for the reaction. Their experiments are consistent 
with other reported tests and with the theoretical speculations around the cold fusion reaction. 
They suggest that nickel and palladium deuteride or hydride systems are capable of producing 
substantial amounts of excess energy employing the cold fusion reaction. 
The scientists state that the conclusions of their experiments confirm the authenticity of the 
Brillouin claims and provide an empirical precedent, as well as a start for a theoretical 
explanation. In August 2012, a report concentrating over 150 experimental tests on the Brillouin 
boiler was made public at the International Conference on Cold Fusion ICCF-17 in South Korea. 
The scientists authoring this reports are : Robert Godes, the inventor of the Controlled Electron 
Capture Reaction, Robert George, the Brillouin CEO, Francis Tanzella and Michael McKubre, 
researchers at SRI International. 
Their conclusions, after 150 tests on 2 different calorimeter designs of the Brillouin boiler, are 
that the anomalous heat effect can be observed in a system where palladium and nickel hydrides 
are pressurized and stimulated using Q pulses. The scientists started with the assumption that 
exciting a metal hydride at a frequency related to the lattice resonance would determine the 
deuterons or protons to sustain the controlled electron capture reaction. This would supposedly 
cause excess thermal energy using a minimal amount of reactants during a reaction catalyzed by 
high temperature and pressure. The Brillouin Boiler consisted in a closed cell containing : a 
pressure vessel with a band heater, a nickel cathode .31 mm thick, a nickel wire mesh anode, 0.5 
liter of sodium hydroxide NaOH solution, an oil coolant loop with a heat exchanger for thermal 
transfer, resistive temperature detectors made of platinum for measuring the input and output 
temperature of the coolant, a catalytic recombiner for safety measures and a resistance heater, 
used for calorimetric calibration. 
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The device can operate at temperatures up to 200 C and pressure of 130 bar, using electricity as 
input and generating heat. The power entered into the reaction chamber, as well as the power 
used for the control board have been quantified using very conservative measurements by an 
oscilloscope meter and including any inductive and logic circuit losses. The output power is 
quantified using an organic fluid that pumps the heat from the inside of the reaction chamber 
through a heat exchanger placed in the electrolyte inside the boiler cell. The electrolyte is heated 
following the reaction taking place in the boiler, transferring the thermal energy to the organic 
fluid, that is extracted using an external heat exchanger. The excess heat is measured considering 
the input and output temperature difference, the flow rate, the room temperature. The system 
heat loss is also quantified using a software application, finely calibrated to account for all 
conductive and radiative heat loss, as well as the heat lost through the top of the test cell, that 
allows more heat to escape as it heats and increases its thermal conductivity. 
The scientists conducted a series of experiments, testing various details of the device and 
reaction. The experiments lasted up to 5 days and the excess heat ranged from 50%, to 75-80% 
and even 100%. The researchers concluded that this series of experiments demonstrated the 
capacity of the nickel-hydrogen system to produce up to twice the input energy using the cold 
fusion reaction. The anomalous heat effect was always present in their tests and it was due to the 
Q pulse stimulation and the sealed reaction chamber. They noticed that the thermal output was 
significantly higher than the electrical input and that a higher temperature and pressure increased 
the reaction probability and output ratio. The reaction output is also directly related to the 
frequency of the Q pulses applied to the nickel lattice. The scientists achieved a 100% heat 
surplus, but hope to reach a 200% ratio, that would make the technology industrially profitable. 
They are planning on focusing their efforts on achieving this threshold and preparing the 
Brillouin Boiler for commercialization. They are also testing a third design of the device, that 
supposedly operates at a higher temperature and will be able to produce a higher excess heat 
ratio. Brillouin and SRI International believe that the first commercially viable application of this 
technology will be a heating system employing the Controlled Electron Capture Reaction. 
Brillouin has filled 3 applications for a patent on their device to the US Patent Office. However, 
the Office has been ignoring any request slightly related to cold fusion due to the negative 
reception of the reaction back in 1989. Hopefully, the amplitude cold fusion gained in the 
scientific world in the last years will prompt the Office to reconsider their position. The patent 
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application filed by Robert Godes, the inventor of the Controlled Electron Capture Reaction, for 
the Brillouin New Hydrogen Boiler has been rejected numerous times by the US Patent Office 
on various claims. The apparatus described in his patent claim is comprised of the core, made of 
a material with phonon propagation characteristics, a vault for inserting the reactants in the body 
of the boiler, an electricity source for stimulating the core with current pulses in order to ignite 
the nuclear reaction, a closed loop control system to monitor and manipulate the reaction 
parameters. 
The reactants inside the device, palladium and hydrogen or deuterium need to be stimulated by 
phonon insertion into the core by means of an electric pulse in order for the nuclear reaction to 
start. The reaction can also be stimulated by heat and ultrasound. The theoretical base of the 
reaction, as presented by Godes in the patent application derives from the electron capture by 
protons in order to produce neutrons. The next step is the neutron capture by hydrogen in order 
to form higher hydrogen isotopes, that through beta decay produce helium and excess heat. The 
patent application is still pending and Robert Godes is amending the claims in order to meet the 
requirements of the evaluator that request for the device to be proved functional and feasible. 
Hopefully, a device like the Brillouin New Hydrogen Boiler, confirmed by respectable scientists 
and independently verified, will receive a patent, in spite of US Patent Office’s propensity to 
reject all cold fusion related requests. In 2012, Brillouin was granted a patent for their New 
Hydrogen Boiler in China, after multiple patent applications around the world. As soon as the 
technology was patented, Brillouin was contacted bycompanies interested in licensing the device 
and starting mass production. This is a big step in making the Brillouin Boiler commercially 
available and providing the world with green, cheap energy. 
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3. Defkalion – Hyperion- 
Hyperion is the cold fusion powered reactor developed by Defkalion Green Technologies 
located in Athens, Greece. The device is based on the E-Cat prototype, developed by Italian 
inventor Andrea Rossi and is perfected by Defkalion to be scaled up or down, depending on the 
market requirements. 
Defkalion is planning to become one of the key players on the energy market, providing cheap, 
clean and sustainable thermal energy through their innovative Hyperion device. They will come
on the market with a reactor that provides significant cost and efficiency improvements, as well 
as a wide range of applications, from household heating to industrial settings. 
They plan to use their know-how and resources to improve their technology and adapt it to the 
changing energy demands of our world. 
Defkalion expressed their support and trust in the reliability of the E-Cat and, although they deny 
using cold fusion as the reaction powering Hyperion, they admit that the device is based on an 
exothermic reaction between nickel an hydrogen resulting in green, cheap and clean heat. 
The company claims that Hyperion is in the final stages of development and will soon become 
commercially available and produced on a mass scale. They promise a broad range of products 
that generate 6 to 30 times more energy than they receive. Besides their commercial plans, the 
company is interested in collaboration with the scientific community in order to establish a 
global theoretical framework for this new and innovative science field. 
Hyperion is based on Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat and Defkalion claim that the E-Cat is only the 
black box of Hyperion, that is built around the kernel using a complex machinery 
and electronics system. The reactor produces only thermal energy and no electricity and has no 
emissions or radioactive waste. 
Hyperion will be available with output energy ranging from 5 – 30 kW to 1.15 – 3.45 MW. 
The Hyperion device consists in a body, a hydrogen canister and control equipment. 
The E-Cat core is formed of several metal tubes loaded with nickel and the catalyst mix, where 
the nickel-hydrogen reaction takes place and generates heat between 5 and 30 kW. The heat 
produced is driven out of the main body using a thermal closed circuit, that cools down the tube, 
using a cooling liquid circulator-pump that is electronically controlled. All the core elements are 
located inside an internal box that is sealed, thermally isolated and shielded with lead. 
The device also includes an electric radiator that heats up the tube in order to ignite the reaction. 
This radiator consumes only 0.5 kW. 
The hydrogen canister is also the main switch of the device, that can be turned off by stopping 
the hydrogen input. The canister is under pressure at a specific level required by the reaction. 
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The control board consists of electronics that monitor the system specifications and ensure that 
safety limits are met. They also protect against unauthorized use of the device. 
During the device production and use, no radioactive materials are used and no toxic emissions 
or radioactive waste is produced. 
The method powering Hyperion is based on the reaction between hydrogen gas, nickel powder 
and proprietary catalyst materials and structures. Resistance heating elements are required to heat 
up the hydrogen gas and ignite the reaction. The hydrogen atoms are pressed into the nickel atom 
lattice and the reaction generates gamma rays and light that are transformed into thermal energy 
inside the reactor. 
Although built on the E-Cat prototype, Hyperion claims a coefficient of performance of 20, 
compared to only 11.7, asserted by Rossi. On the other hand, Hyperion incurs more costs by 
using electricity to excite the start of the reaction, while Rossi uses natural gas for the initial 
phase. 
Cold fusion is such a new and innovative field and presents many opportunities as well as 
challenges. Defkalion is focused on research and development in this field and is trying to extend 
the current limitations and further develop the technology through a bottom-up approach. 
Defkalion received an Italian patent for Hyperion and the European Union patent is still pending 
on its final stage. The company submitted multiple applications worldwide and hopes to receive 
intellectual rights for their device in the near future. The EU authorities are running tests on 
Hyperion in order to issue its safety certificate. The key points pursued by the observers are 
stability, performance, functionality and safety. 
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CHAPTER-4 
vi. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS – 
For a search to be successful, it must follow a series of perhaps ambiguous clues in 
the correct logical order.Two assumptions are made: All LENR occurs in the same 
environment and by the same mechanism, and the environment and mechanism 
must not conflict with known chemical behavior or each other. Elimination of all 
environments that conflict with these assumptions and identification of the only 
environment common to all methods for producing LENR results in the following 
conclusions: 
1. A special environment is required for LENR to occur and this is not a material 
such as PdD or NiH, regardless of its purity, dimension, or hydrogen content. 
2. A closed crack, void or gap of critical size and shape is the only condition 
potentially common to all methods for causing LENR. This gap may have the 
form of a nanotube made from various materials including carbon. 
3. The mechanism for lowering the Coulomb barrier involves a single electron that 
is absorbed by the fusion process and remains for a short time in the resulting 
product, after which it is emitted as a weak beta. 
4. The fusion process results from resonance, which releases the resulting energy 
as X-rays over a short period of time. 
5. All isotopes of hydrogen can produce LENR, which results in fusion and 
transmutation. 
6. Heat is mostly generated by D+D+e fusion to give He4+e when deuterium is 
used and H+H+e fusion to give stable deuterium when normal hydrogen is used. 
When both isotopes are present, tritium is formed by the D+H+e fusion reaction. 
7. LENR occasionally involves addition of hydrogen isotopes to heavy nuclei, 
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resulting in transmutation at an active site. This reaction does not absorb an 
electron. 
8. Detectable radiation and radioactive isotopes are occasionally produced, but are 
not common. 
9. Several nuclear mechanisms besides LENR can operate within solid materials. 
These are sensitive to the chemical conditions, including hot fusion-type reactions 
when applied energy is low. 
10. Successful theory requires a strong relation between physics and chemistry, 
and a compatible relationship between the NAE and the mechanism operating 
within the NAE. 
11. Unreasonable skepticism and rejection of competent observation has severely 
handicapped the field and delayed understanding and application. 
Some of these conclusions are significantly different from conventional beliefs in 
the field and are well outside of what conventional physics can presently explain or 
justify. 
As a student, our job is to decide which assumptions and conclusions are correct 
based on past and future studies. The conclusions are offered as a guide to future 
studies. 
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vii. BIBLIOGRAPHY - 
BOOKS- 
 A Student’s Guide to Cold Fusion 
Edmund Storms KivaLabs, Santa Fe, NM (updated, April 2012) 
 Nagel, D.J., Scientific Overview of ICCF15. 2009 
 Rothwell, J., Cold Fusion And The Future. 2004 
 U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report on cold fusion: Technology Forecast: 
Worldwide Research on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing and Gaining 
Acceptance DIA-08-0911-003, 13 November 2009 
 McKubre, M.C.H., Cold Fusion (LENR) One Perspective on the State of the Science 
 Hagelstein, P.L., et al. New Physical Effects in Metal Deuterides. in Eleventh International 
Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2004 
 Mallove, E. “Fire From Ice” 
 Krivit, S. and Winocur, N, “The Rebirth of Cold Fusion: Real Science, Real Hope, Real 
Energy” 
 Storms, E. “The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction” 
 Mizuno, T., “Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion”
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2. www.extremetech.com › Electronics accessed on 03.09.2014 
3. www.nasa.gov/ (Rocket technology) accessed on 03.09.2014 
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Detailed Report on Nuclear cold fusion Reaction and it's Future aspects

  • 1. TERM PAPER PRESENTATION ON ANALYSIS ON NUCLEAR COLD FUSION REACTION AND IT’S FUTURE ASPECTS At Rajasthan Submitted by- Anurag Bhattacharjee (B.Tech-Chemical), 3rd Sem I
  • 2. CERTIFICATE This is to certify that ANURAG BHATTACHARJEE ,student of B.Tech Chemical Engineering has carried out the work presented in the project of the term paper Entitled “NUCLEAR COLD FUSION REACTION AND IT’S FUTURE ASPECTS” as part of Second- Year programme of Bachelor of Technology in chemical engineering from Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Rajasthan, under my supervision. II DATE:26/09/2014 MRS. SHIKHA SINGH MITTAL REPORT GUIDE ASET, AUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  • 3. I owe a great many thanks many people who helped and supported me during the writing of this Term paper. My deepest thanks to Lecturer, Mrs Shikha Singh Mittal the Guide of the project for guiding and correcting various documents of mine with attention and care. She has taken pain to go through the project and make necessary correction as and when needed. I would also thank my Institution- “AMITY UNIVERSITY RAJASTHAN” and my faculty members without whom this project would have been a distant reality. I also extend my heartfelt thanks to my family and well wishers. III ABSTRACT-
  • 4. Nuclear Energy is the need of the hour as far as future energy resources are concerned. As compared to other renewable and eco-friendly energy sources like solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy , it is not entirely dependent on factors like geographical location, intensity of light/sunlight, weather conditions etc. In 2012, 13% of world’s electricity is provided by nuclear power stations. Nuclear Energy is basically obtained from two process – 1.Fission and 2.Fusion In the process of fission, a heavy nuclei atom like that of uranium splits up into two or more smaller nuclei atom when collided with fast moving neutrons giving out a large quantity of energy. This energy can be controlled and utilized in a systematic manner and that’swhy there are many successfully operating fission plants in the world. But nuclear fission plants has also some major disadvantages like –disposal of nuclear waste, scarce availability of raw material, radiation leakage, critical maintenance conditions and many more. On the contrary, in case of fusion lighter nuclei atoms combine to form heavy nuclei atom. In this process they require extreme pressure and temperature just like inside the sun but artificially this is made possible with the help of lasers, thermonuclear fusion or some other technique. The major advantages of fusion over fission power plants is that it’s wastes are safe, renewable, raw material are cheap and also operating cost is much less. But this techniques are still under many speculations and research due it’s peculiar requirements. For this vary reason, scientists and researchers are trying to make this process possible at room temperature for many decades as if it is done successfully, then it would be the greatest achievement of mankind in this century as it would become the biggest renewable and eco-friendly IV energy source of our future. i. ABBREVIATIONS USED-
  • 5. a) LENR- Low energy nuclear reactions b) CANR- Chemically assisted nuclear reactions c) LANR- Lattice assisted nuclear reactions d) CMNS- Condensed matter nuclear science e) LDX- Levitated dipole experiment f) SPAWAR- Space and Naval warfare systems centre g) ENEA- Energy and sustainable economic development h) NASA- National aeronautics and space administration i) E-CAT- Energy catalyzer V ii. TABLE FOR FIGURE-S, NO FIG. NO.- NAME OF FIG. - PAGE NO. – 1 1.1 Schematic diagram of N.plant 3 2 1.2 M.C. fusion reactor 7 3 2.1 Basic fusion reaction process 10 4 3.1 1 Mw fusion plant 16 5 3.2 Inner Ni-H lattice 19 INDEX -
  • 6. VI Page No. I. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………....1 II. LITURATURE SURVEY………………………………………………….9 III. CURRENT RESEARCH ………………………………………………..16 IV. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS……………27 V. BIBLOGRAPHY……………………………………………………….....29 VI. REFERENCES…………………………………………………………....30
  • 7. CHAPTER- 1 1 iii. INTRODUCTION – In the contemporary world where there is huge requirement of energy resources, crude oil obtained from the fossils and coal are the major sources of energy to us. But while using these resources, even if in a very systematic and judicious manner we have to remember one important thing that all these natural resources are limited and will surely get exhausted some day. Besides this, the venomous gasses produced by burning these resources also cannot be overlooked as far as environmental consequences are concerned. So we have to think, search and swap to some better eco-friendly, cheap and viable alternatives in order to meet our future energy requirements. So, one of this kind of unique but efficient alternative in this field is the nuclear cold fusion reaction. But before we proceed, we should have a brief but comprehensive knowledge about nuclear energy. NUCLEAR ENERGY:- It basically refers to the energy that is being harnessed from the core of Atomic nucleus. In other words it is the energy that remains trapped inside an atom i.e the most basic unit of matter. It’s major advantages are- 1.SAFETY-The major advantage of fusion reactors will not produce high-level nuclear wastes like their fission counterparts, so disposal will be less of a problem. 2.ECONOMIC VIABILITY- In addition, it will be cheap as Deuterium can be readily extracted from seawater, and excess tritium can be made in the fusion reactor itself from lithium, which is readily available in the Earth's crust. 3.CLEAN- No combustion occurs in nuclear power (fission or fusion), so there is no air pollution. 4.LESS NUCLEAR WASTE-Fusion reactors will not produce high-level nuclear wastes like their fission counterparts, so disposal will be less of a problem. In addition, the wastes will not be of weapons-grade nuclear materials as is the case in fission reactors. Now again, one of the laws of the universe is that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed. But they can be changed in form. Matter can be changed into energy. Albert Einstein’s famous mathematical formula E = mc2 explains this. The equation says: E [energy]
  • 8. equals m [mass] times c2 [c stands for the speed or velocity of light]. This means that it is mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. Later, scientists used Einstein's equation as the key to unlock atomic energy and to create atomic bombs. An atom's nucleus can be split apart. This is known as fission. When this is done, a tremendous amount of energy in the form of both heat and light is released by the initiation of a chain reaction. This energy, when slowly released, can be harnessed to generate electricity. But, when it is released all at once, it results in a tremendous explosion as in an atomic bomb. 2 In case of fission, Uranium is the main element required to run a nuclear reactor where energy is extracted. Uranium is mined from many places around the world. It is processed (to get enriched uranium, i.e. the radioactive isotope) into tiny pellets. These pellets are loaded into long rods that are put into the power plant's reactor. Inside the reactor of an atomic power plant, uranium atoms are split apart in controlled chain reaction. Other fissile material includes plutonium and thorium. In a chain reaction, particles released by the splitting of the atom strike other uranium atoms and split them. The particles released by this further split other atoms in a chain process. In nuclear power plants, control rods are used to keep the splitting regulated, so that it does not occur too fast. These are called Moderators. The chain reaction gives off heat energy. This heat energy is used to boil heavy water in the core of the reactor. So, instead of burning a fuel, nuclear power plants use the energy released by the chain reaction to change the energy of atoms into heat energy. The heavy water from around the nuclear core is sent to another section of the power plant. Here it heats another set of pipes filled with water to make steam. The steam in this second set of pipes rotates a turbine to generate electricity. If the reaction is not controlled, you could have an atomic bomb.
  • 9. FIG: 1.1 But in atomic bombs, almost pure pieces of uranium-235 or plutonium, of a precise mass and shape, must be brought together and held together with great force. These conditions are not present in a nuclear reactor. The reaction also creates radioactive material. This material could hurt people if released, so it is kept in a solid form. A strong concrete dome is built around the reactor to prevent this material from escaping in case of an accident. 3
  • 10. Experiences with nuclear programmes differ and the future of nuclear power remains uncertain because of public reaction/fear. But in the past few years the capacity of operating nuclear plants has increased more than twentyfold. There are more than 400 nuclear power plants providing about 7% of the world's primary energy and about 25% of the electric power in industrialized nations. The growth of nuclear power combined with the shift from carbon-heavy fuels such as coal and oil to carbon-light gas contribute to the gradual ‘de-carbonization’ of the world energy system. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Japans Hiroshima and Nagasaki Blast and other nuclear accidents have increased the fear of harnessing nuclear fission energy. Another issue with international and local implications is the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes: both from nuclear reactors making electricity and from the production of military weapons. Earlier disposal practices, such as dumping of nuclear waste at sea, have been completely stopped by formal treaty because of environmental concerns (and by cessation of furtive scuttling of nuclear submarines). Regimes for transport and temporary storage of civil and defence nuclear wastes now function, although sites and designs for permanent disposal have yet to be accepted. Names of some successfully operating nuclear fission reactors- 4 Country In operation Under construction Number Electr. net output MW Number Electr. net output MW Argentina 3 1,627 1 25 Armenia 1 375 - - Belarus - - 1 1.109 Belgium 7 5,927 - - Brazil 2 1,884 1 1,245 Bulgaria 2 1,906 - - Canada 19 13,500 - - China 22 18,056 27 26,756 (6 reactors in Taiwan) Czech Republic 6 3,884 - - Finland 4 2,752 1 1,600 France 58 63,130 1 1,630 Germany 9 12,068 - - Hungary 4 1,889 - - India 21 5,308 6 3,907 Iran 1 915 - - Japan 48 42,388 2 1.325
  • 11. Korea, Republic 23 20,721 5 6,370 Mexico 2 1,330 - - Netherlands 1 482 - - Pakistan 3 690 2 630 Romania 2 1,300 - - Russian Federation 33 23,643 10 8,382 Slovakian Republic 4 1,815 2 880 Slovenia 1 688 - - South Africa 2 1,860 - - Spain 7 7,121 - - Sweden 10 9,474 - - Switzerland 5 3,308 - - Taiwan, China 6 5,032 2 2,600 Ukraine 15 13,107 2 1,900 United ArabEmirates - - 2 2,690 United Kingdom 16 9,243 - - United Arab Emirates - - 2 2,690 USA 100 99,081 5 5,633 Total 437 374,504 70 66,682 Nuclear power plants world-wide, in operation and under construction, IAEA as of 28 August 2014 5 Now, in case of fusion Fusion happens when two (or more) nuclei come close enough for the strong nuclear force to exceed the electrostatic force and pull them together. This process takes light nuclei and forms a heavier one, through a nuclear reaction. For nuclei lighter than iron-56 this is exothermic and releases energy. For nuclei heavier than iron-56 this is endothermic and requires an external source of energy. Hence, nuclei smaller than iron-56 are more likely to fuse while those heavier than iron-56 are more likely to break apart. To fuse, nuclei must overcome the repulsive Coulomb force. This is a force caused by the nuclei containing positively charged protons which repel via the electromagnetic force. To overcome this "Coulomb barrier", the atoms must have a high kinetic energy. There are several ways of doing this, including heating or acceleration. Once an atom is heated above its ionization energy, its electrons are stripped away, leaving just the bare nucleus: the ion. Most fusion experiments use a hot cloud ofions and electrons. This cloud is known as a Plasma. Most fusion reactions produce neutrons, which can be detected and degrade materials.
  • 12. Theoretically, any atom could be fused, if enough pressure and temperature was applied. Mankind has studied many high energy fusion reactions, using particles beams. These are fired at a target. However, for a power plant, we are currently limited to only the light elements. Hydrogen is ideal: because of its small charge, it is the easiest atom to fuse. This reaction produces helium. Fusion reaction takes place at all times in the sun, which provides us with the solar energy. Fusion power is a primary area of research in Plasma physics. This technology was at the experimental stage till many decades of nineteenth and twentieth century. Possible Methods for achieving fusion - 1. Thermonuclear fusion If the matter is sufficiently heated (hence being plasma), the fusion reaction may occur due to collisions with extreme thermal kinetic energies of the particles. In the form of thermonuclear weapons, thermonuclear fusion is the only fusion technique so far to yield undeniably large amounts of useful fusion energy. Usable amounts of thermonuclear fusion energy released in a Controlled manner have yet to be achieved. 2. Inertial confinement fusion: Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a type of fusion energy research that attempts to initiate nuclear fusion reactions by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium. 3. Magnetic confinement fusion- Tokamak- The basic principle of magnetic confinement is to hold plasma fuel in place with magnets and then heat it up using a combination of microwaves, radio waves, and particles beams. Researchers often do this in a tokamak, a donut-shaped reactor.. As of January 2011 there were an estimated 177 tokamak experiments either planned, decommissioned or currently operating, worldwide. This method races hot plasma around in a magnetically confined ring. When completed, ITER will be the world's largest Tokamak. 6
  • 13. Stellarator These are twisted rings of hot plasma. Stellarators are distinct from tokamak in that they are not azimuthally symmetric. Instead, they have a discrete rotational symmetry, often fivefold, like a regular pentagon. Stellarators were developed by Lyman Spitzer in 1950. There are four designs: Torsatron, Heliotron, Heliac and Helias. (LDX)- These use a solid superconducting torus. This is magnetically levitated inside the reactor chamber. The superconductor forms an axisymmetric magnetic field which contains the plasma. The LDX was developed between MIT and Columbia University after 2000 by Jay Kesner and Michael E. Mauel. Magnetic mirror- Developed by Richard F. Post and teams at LLNL in the 1960s. Magnetic mirrors reflected hot plasma back and forth in a line. Variations included the magnetic bottle and the biconic cusp. A series of well-funded, large, mirror machines were built by the US government in the 1970s and 1980s. Field-reversed configuration- This device confines a plasma on closed magnetic field lines without a central penetration. FIG: 1.2 7
  • 14. Names of some operating Plasma research centers – 1. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching - at GERMANY 2. Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology in Greifswald - at GERMANY 3. Drexel University in Pennsylvania - at UNITED STATES 8 4. University of Orleans – at FRANCE 5.Plasma Research Centre of Gujarat – at INDIA But the major problem with simple fusion is that we don't have the technology to recreate the Sun's massive pressures, so researchers have to make up for that by getting hydrogen atoms even hotter than the sun does — in the range of hundreds of millions of degrees Fahrenheit. They heat up the atoms using various tools, including particle beams, electromagnetic fields such as microwaves and radio waves, and lasers. The temperatures needed are so hot that the hydrogen fuel becomes a plasma, a state of matter that exists when a gas's atoms split into positively and negatively charged particles. Researchers have been producing controlled fusion reactions for decades. And that’s the main point from where the idea of fusion reaction at room temperature originates and that is the Nuclear Cold Fusion Reaction.
  • 15. CHAPTER- 2 9 iv. LITERATURE SURVEY – J. Tandberg,s Experimental work- In 1927, Swedish scientist J. Tandberg stated that he had fused hydrogen into helium in an electrolytic cell with palladium electrodes. On the basis of his work, he applied for a Swedish patent for "a method to produce helium and useful reaction energy".After deuterium was discovered in 1932, Tandberg continued his experiments with heavy water. Due to Paneth and Peters's retraction, Tandberg's patent application was eventually denied. His application for a patent in 1927 was denied as he could not explain the physical process. Fleischmann–Pons experiment- The most famous cold fusion claims were made by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann in 1989. After a brief period of interest by the wider scientific community, their reports were called into question by nuclear physicists. Pons and Fleischmann never retracted their claims, but moved their research program to France after the controversy erupted. In mid-March 1989, both research teams were ready to publish their findings, and Fleischmann and Jones had agreed to meet at an airport on March 24 to send their papers toNature via FedEx. Fleischmann and Pons, however, pressured by the University of Utah, which wanted to establish priority on the discovery, broke their apparent agreement, submitting their paper to the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry on March 11, and disclosing their work via a press release[and press conference on March 23. Jones, upset, faxed in his paper to Nature after the press conference. Fleischmann and Pons' announcement drew wide media attention. Cold fusion was proposing the counterintuitive idea that a nuclear reaction could be caused to occur inside a chemically bound crystal structure. But the 1986 discovery of high-temperature superconductivity had made the scientific community more open to revelations of unexpected scientific results that could have
  • 16. huge economic repercussions and that could be replicated reliably even if they had not been predicted by established conjecture. And many scientists were also reminded of the Mössbauer effect, a process involving nuclear transitions in a solid. Its discovery 30 years earlier had also been unexpected, though it was quickly replicated and explained within the existing physics framework. FIG: 2.1 10 Subsequent research Cold fusion and hot fusion compared COLD FUSION HOT FUSION 1.Occurs only in special solids. 1. Occurs in plasma or when energy is applied. 2.Responds to modest energy but not required. 2. Requires high energy. 3.Uses protium (H) or deuterium (D). 3. Uses tritium and deuterium 4.Makes mostly helium (4He) when D is used. 4. Makes tritium and neutrons. 5.Produces insignificant radiation. 5 .Produces significant radiation. 6.Can be initiated in simple devices at high O/I levels. 6. Requires a huge machine to produce high O/I levels. 7.Has been studied for 23 years using about $0.5 B. 7.Has been studied for over 70 years using well over $25 B. 8.Energy generators can be located in each home. 8.The energy generator is huge and must be located well away from populations.
  • 17. Cold fusion research continues today in a few specific venues, but the wider scientific community has generally marginalized the research being done and researchers have had difficulty publishing in mainstream journals. The remaining researchers often term their field LENR or CANR, also LANR,CMNS and Lattice Enabled Nuclear Reactions; one of the reasons being to avoid the negative connotations associated with "cold fusion". The new names avoid making bold implications, like implying that fusion is actually occurring. Proponents see the new terms as a more accurate description of the theories they put forward. The researchers who continue acknowledge that the flaws in the original announcement are the main cause of the subject's marginalization, and they complain of a chronic lack of funding and no possibilities of getting their work published in the highest impact journals. University researchers are often unwilling to investigate cold fusion because they would be ridiculed by their colleagues and their professional careers would be at risk. In 1994, David Goodstein, a professor of physics at Caltech, advocated for increased attention from mainstream researchers and described cold fusion as: a pariah field, cast out by the scientific establishment. Between cold fusion and respectable science there is virtually no communication at all. Cold fusion papers are almost never published in refereed scientific journals, with the result that those works don't receive the normal critical scrutiny that science requires. On the other hand, because the Cold-Fusioners see themselves as a community under siege, there is little internal criticism. Experiments and theories tend to be accepted at face value, for fear of providing even more fuel for external critics, if anyone outside the group was bothering to listen. In these circumstances, crackpots flourish, making matters worse for those who believe that there is serious science going on here. A 1991 review by a cold fusion proponent had calculated "about 600 scientists" were still conducting research. After 1991, cold fusion research only continued in relative obscurity, conducted by groups that had increasing difficulty securing public funding and keeping programs open. These small but committed groups of cold fusion researchers have continued to conduct experiments using Fleischmann and Pons electrolysis set-ups in spite of the rejection by the mainstream community. The Boston Globe estimated in 2004 that there were only 100 to 200 11
  • 18. researchers working in the field, most suffering damage to their reputation and career. Since the main controversy over Pons and Fleischmann had ended, cold fusion research has been funded by private and small governmental scientific investment funds in the United States, Italy, Japan, and India. 12 COUNTRY SPECIFIC RESEARCH - United States U.S. Navy researchers at the SPAWAR in San Diego have been studying cold fusion since 1989. In 2002, they released a two-volume report, "Thermal and nuclear aspects of the Pd/D2O system," with a plea for funding. This and other published papers prompted a 2004 Department of Energy (DOE) review. In August 2003 the U.S. Secretary of Energy Abraham ordered the DOE to organize a second review of the field. This was thanks to an April 2003 letter sent by MIT's Peter L. Hagelstein, and the publication of many new papers, including the Italian ENEA and other researchers in the 2003 International Cold Fusion Conference, and a two-volume book by U.S. SPAWAR in 2002. Cold fusion researchers were asked to present a review document of all the evidence since the 1989 review. The report was released in 2004. The reviewers were "split approximately evenly" on whether the experiments had produced energy in the form of heat, but "most reviewers, even those who accepted the evidence for excess power production, 'stated that the effects are not repeatable, the magnitude of the effect has not increased in over a decade of work, and that many of the reported experiments were not well documented.'". In summary, reviewers found that cold fusion evidence was still not convincing 15 years later, and they didn't recommend a federal research program. They only recommended that agencies consider funding individual well-thought studies in specific areas where research "could be helpful in resolving some of the controversies in the field". They summarized its conclusions thus: While significant progress has been made in the sophistication of calorimeters since the review of this subject in 1989, the conclusions reached by the reviewers today are similar to those found in the 1989 review. The current reviewers identified a number of basic science research areas that could be helpful in resolving some of the controversies in the field, two of which were: 1) material science aspects
  • 19. of deuterated metals using modern characterization techniques, and 2) the study of particles reportedly emitted from deuterated foils using state-of-the-art apparatus and methods. The reviewers believed that this field would benefit from the peer-review processes associated with proposal submission to agencies and paper submission to archival journals. — Report of the (Review of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions), US Department of Energy, December 2004 Cold fusion researchers placed a "rosier spin" on the report, noting that they were finally being treated like normal scientists, and that the report had increased interest in the field and caused "a huge upswing in interest in funding cold fusion research." However, in a 2009 BBC article on an American Chemical Society's meeting on cold fusion, particle physicist Frank Close was quoted stating that the problems that plagued the original cold fusion announcement were still happening: results from studies are still not being independently verified and inexplicable phenomena encountered are being labelled as "cold fusion" even if they are not, in order to attract the attention of journalists. In February 2012 millionaire Sidney Kimmel, convinced that cold fusion was worth investing in by a 19 April 2009 interview with physicist Robert Duncan on the US news-show 60 minutes, made a grant of $5.5 million to the University of Missouri to establish the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance (SKINR). The grant was intended to support research into the interactions of hydrogen with palladium, nickel or platinum at extreme conditions. In March 2013 Graham K. Hubler, a nuclear physicist who worked for the Naval Research Laboratory for 40 years, was named director. One of the SKINR projects is to replicate a 1991 experiment in which Prelas says bursts of millions of neutrons a second were recorded, which was stopped because "his research account had been frozen". He claims that the new experiment has already seen "neutron emissions at similar levels to the 1991 observation". 13 Italy Since the Fleischmann and Pons announcement, the Italian National agency for new technologies, ENEA has funded Franco Scaramuzzi's research into whether excess heat can be measured from metals loaded with deuterium gas. Such research is distributed across ENEA departments, CNRLaboratories, INFN, universities and industrial laboratories in Italy, where the
  • 20. group continues to try to achieve reliable reproducibility (i.e. getting the phenomena to happen in every cell, and inside a certain frame of time). In 2006–2007, the ENEA founded a research program which claimed to have found excess power up to 500%, and in 2009 ENEA hosted the 15th cold fusion conference. 14 Japan Between 1992 and 1997, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry sponsored a "New Hydrogen Energy (NHE)" program of US$20 million to research cold fusion. Announcing the end of the program in 1997, the director and one-time proponent of cold fusion research Hideo Ikegami stated "We couldn't achieve what was first claimed in terms of cold fusion. (...) We can't find any reason to propose more money for the coming year or for the future." In 1999 the Japan C-F Research Society was established to promote the independent research into cold fusion that continued in Japan. The society holds annual meetings. Perhaps the most famous Japanese cold fusion researcher isYoshiaki Arata, from Osaka University, who claimed in a demonstration to produce excess heat when deuterium gas was introduced into a cell containing a mixture of palladium and zirconium oxide, a claim supported by fellow Japanese researcher Akira Kitamura of Kobe University and McKubre at SRI. India In the 1990s, India stopped its research in cold fusion at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre because of the lack of consensus among mainstream scientists and the US denunciation of the research. Yet, in 2008, the National Institute of Advanced Studies recommended the Indian government to revive this research. Projects were commenced at the Chennai's Indian Institute of Technology, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research. However, there is still skepticism among scientists and, for all practical purposes, research is still stopped.
  • 21. 15 PUBLICATIONS-The ISI identified cold fusion as the scientific topic with the largest number of published papers in 1989, of all scientific disciplines. The Nobel Laureate Julian Schwingerdeclared himself a supporter of cold fusion in the fall of 1989, after much of the response to the initial reports had turned negative. He tried to publish his theoretical paper- ("Cold Fusion: A Hypothesis" in Physical Review Letters), but the peer reviewers rejected it so harshly that he felt deeply insulted, and he resigned from the American Physical Society(publisher of PRL) in protest. The number of papers sharply declined after 1990 because of two simultaneous phenomena: scientists abandoning the field and journal editors declining to review new papers, and cold fusion fell off the ISI charts. Researchers who got negative results abandoned the field, while others kept publishing. A 1993 (paper in Physics Letters A) was the last paper published by Fleischmann, and "one of the last reports to be formally challenged on technical grounds by a cold fusion skeptic". (The Journal of Fusion Technology(FT) ) established a permanent feature in 1990 for cold fusion papers, publishing over a dozen papers per year and giving a mainstream outlet for cold fusion researchers. When editor-in-chief George H. Miley retired in 2001, the journal stopped accepting new cold fusion papers. This has been cited as an example of the importance of sympathetic influential individuals to the publication of cold fusion papers in certain journals. Cold fusion reports continued to be published in a small cluster of specialized journals like (Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry) and (Il Nuovo Cimento). Some papers also appeared in (Journal of Physical Chemistry), (Physics Letters A), (International Journal of Hydrogen Energy), and a number of Japanese and Russian journals of physics, chemistry, and engineering. Since 2005, Naturwissenschaften has published cold fusion papers; in 2009, the journal named a cold fusion researcher to its editorial board. In the 1990s, the groups that continued to research cold fusion and their supporters established (non-peer-reviewed) periodicals such as (Fusion Facts), (Cold Fusion Magazine),(Infinite Energy Magazine) and (New Energy Times) to cover developments in cold fusion and other fringe claims in energy production that were ignored in other venues. The internet has also become a major means of communication and self-publication for CF research.
  • 22. CHAPTER-3 16 v. CURRENT RESEARCH – 1. One Mega Watt cold fusion reation plant is now available for common masses- The first cold fusion power plant is now available to pre-order. The E-Cat 1MW Plant, which comes in a standard shipping container, can produce one megawatt of thermal energy, using LENR — a process, often known as cold fusion, that fuses nickel and hydrogen into copper, producing energy 100,000 times more efficiently than combustion. It sounds like E-Cat is now taking orders for delivery in early 2014, priced fairly reasonably at $1.5 million. E-Cat to give its full name, is a technology (and company of the same name) developed by Andrea Rossi — an Italian scientist who claims he’s finally harnessed cold fusion. Due to a lack of published papers, and thus peer review, and a dearth of protective patents — which you would really expect if Rossi had actually discovered cold fusion — the scientific community in general remains very wary of Rossi’s claims. FIG: 3.1
  • 23. According to E-Cat, each of its cold fusion reactors measures 20x20x1 centimeters, and you stack these individual reactors together in parallel to create a thermal plant. Pictured right is a computer-generated render of an E-Cat Home Unit, which is essentially a bunch of reactors stacked in a box. The E-Cat 1MW Plant consists of 106 of these units rammed into a standard shipping container. For now, this is just a thermal power plant — it produces warm water and steam. In theory you could strap an electric generator to the 1MW plant to produce cheap, clean power — but for some reason E-Cat doesn’t seem to be talking about that just yet. The fuel cost works out to be $1 per megawatt-hour, apparently, which is utterly insane — coal power is around $100 per megawatt-hour. 2. NASA LENR Aircraft and Spaceplanes- Doug Wells will also present a paper at the AIAA Aviation 2014 Conference, a Study Webinar by Marty Bradley available through the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a paper was presented in January, at the 52nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, by Robert A. McDonald from Cal Poly. Thousands upon thousands of savvy people are now grasping that cold fusion is emerging as a source of clean energy beyond our most promising dreams, with the power to move humanity through our next evolution. With popular cold fusion/LENR science, we are on the verge of an epic technological advancement with the concurrent personal, social, economic, environmental, spiritual, and philosophical advancements. With that change in energetics, the paradigm changes, and we begin building an ecologically sustainable society. Purpose- The purpose of this research is to investigate the potential vehicle performance impact of applying the emergent LENR technology to aircraft propulsion systems. LENR potentially has over 4,000 times the density of chemical energy with zero greenhouse gas or hydrocarbon emissions. This technology could enable the use of an abundance of inexpensive energy to remove active design constraints, leading to new aircraft designs with very low fuel consumption, low noise, and no emissions. 17
  • 24. The objectives of this project are to gather as many perspectives as possible on how and where to use a very high density energy source for aircraft including the benefits arising from its application, explore the performance impacts to aircraft, and evaluate potential propulsion system concepts. 18 Background LENR is a type of nuclear energy and is expected to be clean, safe, portable, scalable, and abundant. The expected benefits make it an ideal energy solution. When it is applied to aircraft, LENR removes the environmental impacts of fuel burn and emission from combustion. Excess energy could be used to reduce noise so that all three of NASA’s technology goals for future subsonic vehicles are either eliminated or addressed. Furthermore, aviation impacts almost every part of our daily lives, civilian and military. A revolutionary technology like LENR has the potential to completely change how businesses, military, and the country operate as a whole, giving a tremendous financial, tactical, and resource advantage to anyone that utilizes it in the most effective way. High-density energy sources create some unique capabilities as well as challenges for integration into aircraft. An LENR concept that has reported some success generates heat in a catalyst process that combines nickel metal (Ni) with hydrogen gas (H). The initial testing and theory show that radiation and radioisotopes are extremely short lived and can be easily shielded.
  • 25. FIG: 3.2 Although nuclear fission has been looked at for use in aircraft, LENR is different. LENR has a higher energy density and no radioactive by products. Success of this research will provide a firm foundation for future research and investment for high-density energy source technology integration into aircraft. 19 3. Brilliouin – New Hydrogen Boiler- The Brillouin Hew Hydrogen Boiler is the cold fusion powered prototype produced by Brillouin Energy Corporation of Berkeley, California and employing a variation of the low energy nuclear reaction called Controlled Electron Capture Reaction to generate clean, cheap and efficient energy. The company does not use the low energy nuclear reaction term to describe the reaction taking place inside their device, as they consider cold fusion to be only one step of the controlled electron capture reaction process. Although not the first company to come forward with a cold fusion powered device, Brillouin claims to be ahead of its competitors due its superior understanding of the underlying physics of the device.The process fueling the New Hydrogen Boiler is the conversion of hydrogen from regular water into helium gas, a process that generates a large amount of thermal energy.The reaction starts with an endothermic reaction, a reaction that absorbs heat, and ends with an
  • 26. exothermic one, generating a huge amount of thermal energy. The temperature and pressure required by the reaction to take place are relatively low, and are safe for any chemical and industrial setting. The hydrogen is extracted directly from ordinary tap water and is inserted into a matrix shaped nickel lattice. The system is then stimulated by the Brillouin proprietary electronic pulse generator and the electricity is applied in very small spaces that become the metal stress points. This stimulation allows some protons from the hydrogen atom to capture an electron and turn into a neutron. This way, a small amount of energy is transferred into mass in the neutron. Further electric stimulation of the system creates more neutrons and causes the neutrons to combine with the hydrogen atom in order to create deuterium. This transformation releases energy. Further stimulation of the system causes some of the neutrons to combine with deuterium and form tritium, a process that generates even more energy. The neutrons continue to combine with the tritium and form quadrium, releasing more energy as heat. Quadrium is not a stable element so it quickly transforms into helium in a process that generates a large amount of energy, up to 10 times more than the energy used in all previous steps. The resulting thermal energy is absorbed by the metal lattice and can be harnessed using a heat exchanger and transferred as heated water or steam. The thermal energy produced by this boiler is between 100 and 150 C. It is suitable for most water heating requirements, from household heaters to commercial water heaters. An improved technology is expected to be able to power electric turbines and generate electricity, and be used to create dry steam and power industrial activities. Water is the main fuel used in the reaction, as the hydrogen atoms are extracted from regular tap water. The boiler is very fuel efficient, Brillouin claims that 1.024 ml of water generates the same amount of energy as 2 48- gallon drums of gasoline. The potency of the Controlled Electron Capture Reaction is beyond any known chemical reaction and is several orders of magnitude more powerful than any known fuel. And besides its huge potency, the reaction is clean and does not create any pollution or radioactivity. The reaction consumes hydrogen, but in a very small amount. The nickel involved is used only as a reaction chamber and catalyst and is not consumed during the reaction. A very important confirmation and a competitive advantage the Brillouin New Hydrogen Boiler has, is that the device has been independently verified by 2 prominent scientific organizations and has been validated by their reports. Los Almos National Laboratories is one of the third party 20
  • 27. organizations that conducted experiments on the NHB and concluded that the device has consistent and impressive results. They managed to replicate the reaction described by Brillouin and expressed their support and confidence in the potential of the discovery. The Brillouin New Energy Boiler is the only cold fusion device to be independently validated by a nationally and internationally accredited laboratory. Dr. Michael McKubre of Stanford Research International, an avid supporter of the LENR reaction and theory, has also tested the New Hydrogen Boiler and encountered positive results. He subsequently joined their board of advisers, being impressed by the consistency of the results. He stated that The Brillouin New Hydrogen Boiler was the first device that could replicate the same results multiple times, every time, with no exception. Between 1 and 3 July 2012, the International Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Symposium (ILENRS-12) took place in the United States. A group of scientists from SRI International, led by Michael McKubre presented a report entitled “Calorimetric Studies of the Destructive Stimulation of Palladium and Nickel Fine Wires” where they introduced an overview of the cold fusion reaction and detailed the results of their experiments. The conclusions of this report clearly supported the work of Brillouin Energy Corporation and the reliability of their New Hydrogen Boiler. The recent developments in the field of cold fusion, with more and more scientists coming forward confirming the reality of the reaction and proposing prototypes of cold fusion powered devices, have prompted the scientists to reevaluate the Fleischmann – Pons reaction, that was buried under the unfortunate title of pathological science for more than 2 decades. The experiments conducted by the SRI International scientists focused on systems consisting in fine palladium or nickel wires pre-loaded with hydrogen or deuterium. The wires were pre-loaded with hydrogen or deuterium using an electrolytic procedure developed by SRI. The loaded wires were sealed using chemical methods inside the palladium lattice, to avoid the hydrogen atom recombination. The scientists would then use a co-deposition technique developed by chemist Mossier-Boss of SPAWAR to deposit the palladium and hydrogen on a cathode surface at the same time and form a stable structure. After applying these steps, the system was transferred into liquid nitrogen and a cryogenic calorimeter was used to quantify the excess energy, while a pulse of current was sent through the loaded palladium wire. 21
  • 28. After the excess thermal energy was measured, the scientists would analyze the nuclear byproducts. The SRI International researchers carried out 30 such experiments and confirmed the anomalous heat effect exhibited in all demonstrations, in an amount larger than any chemical reaction could produce. The goal of the experiments was not only the development of a working prototype, but also establishing a solid theoretical framework for the reaction. Their experiments are consistent with other reported tests and with the theoretical speculations around the cold fusion reaction. They suggest that nickel and palladium deuteride or hydride systems are capable of producing substantial amounts of excess energy employing the cold fusion reaction. The scientists state that the conclusions of their experiments confirm the authenticity of the Brillouin claims and provide an empirical precedent, as well as a start for a theoretical explanation. In August 2012, a report concentrating over 150 experimental tests on the Brillouin boiler was made public at the International Conference on Cold Fusion ICCF-17 in South Korea. The scientists authoring this reports are : Robert Godes, the inventor of the Controlled Electron Capture Reaction, Robert George, the Brillouin CEO, Francis Tanzella and Michael McKubre, researchers at SRI International. Their conclusions, after 150 tests on 2 different calorimeter designs of the Brillouin boiler, are that the anomalous heat effect can be observed in a system where palladium and nickel hydrides are pressurized and stimulated using Q pulses. The scientists started with the assumption that exciting a metal hydride at a frequency related to the lattice resonance would determine the deuterons or protons to sustain the controlled electron capture reaction. This would supposedly cause excess thermal energy using a minimal amount of reactants during a reaction catalyzed by high temperature and pressure. The Brillouin Boiler consisted in a closed cell containing : a pressure vessel with a band heater, a nickel cathode .31 mm thick, a nickel wire mesh anode, 0.5 liter of sodium hydroxide NaOH solution, an oil coolant loop with a heat exchanger for thermal transfer, resistive temperature detectors made of platinum for measuring the input and output temperature of the coolant, a catalytic recombiner for safety measures and a resistance heater, used for calorimetric calibration. 22
  • 29. The device can operate at temperatures up to 200 C and pressure of 130 bar, using electricity as input and generating heat. The power entered into the reaction chamber, as well as the power used for the control board have been quantified using very conservative measurements by an oscilloscope meter and including any inductive and logic circuit losses. The output power is quantified using an organic fluid that pumps the heat from the inside of the reaction chamber through a heat exchanger placed in the electrolyte inside the boiler cell. The electrolyte is heated following the reaction taking place in the boiler, transferring the thermal energy to the organic fluid, that is extracted using an external heat exchanger. The excess heat is measured considering the input and output temperature difference, the flow rate, the room temperature. The system heat loss is also quantified using a software application, finely calibrated to account for all conductive and radiative heat loss, as well as the heat lost through the top of the test cell, that allows more heat to escape as it heats and increases its thermal conductivity. The scientists conducted a series of experiments, testing various details of the device and reaction. The experiments lasted up to 5 days and the excess heat ranged from 50%, to 75-80% and even 100%. The researchers concluded that this series of experiments demonstrated the capacity of the nickel-hydrogen system to produce up to twice the input energy using the cold fusion reaction. The anomalous heat effect was always present in their tests and it was due to the Q pulse stimulation and the sealed reaction chamber. They noticed that the thermal output was significantly higher than the electrical input and that a higher temperature and pressure increased the reaction probability and output ratio. The reaction output is also directly related to the frequency of the Q pulses applied to the nickel lattice. The scientists achieved a 100% heat surplus, but hope to reach a 200% ratio, that would make the technology industrially profitable. They are planning on focusing their efforts on achieving this threshold and preparing the Brillouin Boiler for commercialization. They are also testing a third design of the device, that supposedly operates at a higher temperature and will be able to produce a higher excess heat ratio. Brillouin and SRI International believe that the first commercially viable application of this technology will be a heating system employing the Controlled Electron Capture Reaction. Brillouin has filled 3 applications for a patent on their device to the US Patent Office. However, the Office has been ignoring any request slightly related to cold fusion due to the negative reception of the reaction back in 1989. Hopefully, the amplitude cold fusion gained in the scientific world in the last years will prompt the Office to reconsider their position. The patent 23
  • 30. application filed by Robert Godes, the inventor of the Controlled Electron Capture Reaction, for the Brillouin New Hydrogen Boiler has been rejected numerous times by the US Patent Office on various claims. The apparatus described in his patent claim is comprised of the core, made of a material with phonon propagation characteristics, a vault for inserting the reactants in the body of the boiler, an electricity source for stimulating the core with current pulses in order to ignite the nuclear reaction, a closed loop control system to monitor and manipulate the reaction parameters. The reactants inside the device, palladium and hydrogen or deuterium need to be stimulated by phonon insertion into the core by means of an electric pulse in order for the nuclear reaction to start. The reaction can also be stimulated by heat and ultrasound. The theoretical base of the reaction, as presented by Godes in the patent application derives from the electron capture by protons in order to produce neutrons. The next step is the neutron capture by hydrogen in order to form higher hydrogen isotopes, that through beta decay produce helium and excess heat. The patent application is still pending and Robert Godes is amending the claims in order to meet the requirements of the evaluator that request for the device to be proved functional and feasible. Hopefully, a device like the Brillouin New Hydrogen Boiler, confirmed by respectable scientists and independently verified, will receive a patent, in spite of US Patent Office’s propensity to reject all cold fusion related requests. In 2012, Brillouin was granted a patent for their New Hydrogen Boiler in China, after multiple patent applications around the world. As soon as the technology was patented, Brillouin was contacted bycompanies interested in licensing the device and starting mass production. This is a big step in making the Brillouin Boiler commercially available and providing the world with green, cheap energy. 24 3. Defkalion – Hyperion- Hyperion is the cold fusion powered reactor developed by Defkalion Green Technologies located in Athens, Greece. The device is based on the E-Cat prototype, developed by Italian inventor Andrea Rossi and is perfected by Defkalion to be scaled up or down, depending on the market requirements. Defkalion is planning to become one of the key players on the energy market, providing cheap, clean and sustainable thermal energy through their innovative Hyperion device. They will come
  • 31. on the market with a reactor that provides significant cost and efficiency improvements, as well as a wide range of applications, from household heating to industrial settings. They plan to use their know-how and resources to improve their technology and adapt it to the changing energy demands of our world. Defkalion expressed their support and trust in the reliability of the E-Cat and, although they deny using cold fusion as the reaction powering Hyperion, they admit that the device is based on an exothermic reaction between nickel an hydrogen resulting in green, cheap and clean heat. The company claims that Hyperion is in the final stages of development and will soon become commercially available and produced on a mass scale. They promise a broad range of products that generate 6 to 30 times more energy than they receive. Besides their commercial plans, the company is interested in collaboration with the scientific community in order to establish a global theoretical framework for this new and innovative science field. Hyperion is based on Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat and Defkalion claim that the E-Cat is only the black box of Hyperion, that is built around the kernel using a complex machinery and electronics system. The reactor produces only thermal energy and no electricity and has no emissions or radioactive waste. Hyperion will be available with output energy ranging from 5 – 30 kW to 1.15 – 3.45 MW. The Hyperion device consists in a body, a hydrogen canister and control equipment. The E-Cat core is formed of several metal tubes loaded with nickel and the catalyst mix, where the nickel-hydrogen reaction takes place and generates heat between 5 and 30 kW. The heat produced is driven out of the main body using a thermal closed circuit, that cools down the tube, using a cooling liquid circulator-pump that is electronically controlled. All the core elements are located inside an internal box that is sealed, thermally isolated and shielded with lead. The device also includes an electric radiator that heats up the tube in order to ignite the reaction. This radiator consumes only 0.5 kW. The hydrogen canister is also the main switch of the device, that can be turned off by stopping the hydrogen input. The canister is under pressure at a specific level required by the reaction. 25
  • 32. The control board consists of electronics that monitor the system specifications and ensure that safety limits are met. They also protect against unauthorized use of the device. During the device production and use, no radioactive materials are used and no toxic emissions or radioactive waste is produced. The method powering Hyperion is based on the reaction between hydrogen gas, nickel powder and proprietary catalyst materials and structures. Resistance heating elements are required to heat up the hydrogen gas and ignite the reaction. The hydrogen atoms are pressed into the nickel atom lattice and the reaction generates gamma rays and light that are transformed into thermal energy inside the reactor. Although built on the E-Cat prototype, Hyperion claims a coefficient of performance of 20, compared to only 11.7, asserted by Rossi. On the other hand, Hyperion incurs more costs by using electricity to excite the start of the reaction, while Rossi uses natural gas for the initial phase. Cold fusion is such a new and innovative field and presents many opportunities as well as challenges. Defkalion is focused on research and development in this field and is trying to extend the current limitations and further develop the technology through a bottom-up approach. Defkalion received an Italian patent for Hyperion and the European Union patent is still pending on its final stage. The company submitted multiple applications worldwide and hopes to receive intellectual rights for their device in the near future. The EU authorities are running tests on Hyperion in order to issue its safety certificate. The key points pursued by the observers are stability, performance, functionality and safety. 26
  • 33. CHAPTER-4 vi. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS – For a search to be successful, it must follow a series of perhaps ambiguous clues in the correct logical order.Two assumptions are made: All LENR occurs in the same environment and by the same mechanism, and the environment and mechanism must not conflict with known chemical behavior or each other. Elimination of all environments that conflict with these assumptions and identification of the only environment common to all methods for producing LENR results in the following conclusions: 1. A special environment is required for LENR to occur and this is not a material such as PdD or NiH, regardless of its purity, dimension, or hydrogen content. 2. A closed crack, void or gap of critical size and shape is the only condition potentially common to all methods for causing LENR. This gap may have the form of a nanotube made from various materials including carbon. 3. The mechanism for lowering the Coulomb barrier involves a single electron that is absorbed by the fusion process and remains for a short time in the resulting product, after which it is emitted as a weak beta. 4. The fusion process results from resonance, which releases the resulting energy as X-rays over a short period of time. 5. All isotopes of hydrogen can produce LENR, which results in fusion and transmutation. 6. Heat is mostly generated by D+D+e fusion to give He4+e when deuterium is used and H+H+e fusion to give stable deuterium when normal hydrogen is used. When both isotopes are present, tritium is formed by the D+H+e fusion reaction. 7. LENR occasionally involves addition of hydrogen isotopes to heavy nuclei, 27
  • 34. resulting in transmutation at an active site. This reaction does not absorb an electron. 8. Detectable radiation and radioactive isotopes are occasionally produced, but are not common. 9. Several nuclear mechanisms besides LENR can operate within solid materials. These are sensitive to the chemical conditions, including hot fusion-type reactions when applied energy is low. 10. Successful theory requires a strong relation between physics and chemistry, and a compatible relationship between the NAE and the mechanism operating within the NAE. 11. Unreasonable skepticism and rejection of competent observation has severely handicapped the field and delayed understanding and application. Some of these conclusions are significantly different from conventional beliefs in the field and are well outside of what conventional physics can presently explain or justify. As a student, our job is to decide which assumptions and conclusions are correct based on past and future studies. The conclusions are offered as a guide to future studies. 28
  • 35. 29 vii. BIBLIOGRAPHY - BOOKS-  A Student’s Guide to Cold Fusion Edmund Storms KivaLabs, Santa Fe, NM (updated, April 2012)  Nagel, D.J., Scientific Overview of ICCF15. 2009  Rothwell, J., Cold Fusion And The Future. 2004  U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report on cold fusion: Technology Forecast: Worldwide Research on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing and Gaining Acceptance DIA-08-0911-003, 13 November 2009  McKubre, M.C.H., Cold Fusion (LENR) One Perspective on the State of the Science  Hagelstein, P.L., et al. New Physical Effects in Metal Deuterides. in Eleventh International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2004  Mallove, E. “Fire From Ice”  Krivit, S. and Winocur, N, “The Rebirth of Cold Fusion: Real Science, Real Hope, Real Energy”  Storms, E. “The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction”  Mizuno, T., “Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion”
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