Kall fusion

" In March 2007, at the American Physical Society meeting in Denver, Colorado, the SPAWAR group cautiously began to report possible neutron signals. Around this time, the group also submitted its paper to a journal.

The researchers reported low fluxes but clear evidence of neutrons. These findings are inconsistent with D+D "cold fusion," unless, by some chance, someone conceives of a viable process for a primary D+D "cold fusion" scheme that produces tritium in situ which in turn leads to secondary DT "cold fusion" reactions. The findings are, however, readily explainable as spallation neutrons by a non-fusion mechanism, for example, Widom-Larsen.

The SPAWAR group’s work developed further, and it was replicated at SRI International and the University of California, San Diego. In October 2007, at the 8th International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen/Deuterium-Loaded Metals in Catania, Italy, electrochemist Francis Tanzella reported his replication of the SPAWAR experiment.

"Neutron count above background suggested in at least three experiments," Tanzella said.

In one of these, he observed a neutron signal 14 times greater than background from an electronic detector. Researchers in Russia confirmed this by cross-checking, using a different verification method. According to their mechanical method, the signal was real, though not as strong.

A year later, the SPAWAR group’s paper claiming evidence of energetic neutrons published online on Oct. 1, 2008.

Three months after that, on Jan. 7, 2008, Michael McKubre of SRI International, in a presentation to the leaders of the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Trombay, India, said there were "no neutrons" in LENR.

How could he have made such a statement when he and Tanzella had just reported neutrons three months earlier? When the largest team to investigate LENR had, in this very same Indian institution, observed neutrons in LENR two decades earlier?

Two days after McKubre's talk at BARC, I spoke at the Indian National Institute for Advanced Studies. I gave my perspective and discussed the variety of observed neutron signals in the recent experiments. The audience included leaders of India's national laboratories as well as some members of its Atomic Energy Commission. I included neutron data reported by SRI International.

I expected some tension after my talk, but I was unprepared for this: McKubre demanded that I discontinue discussing the neutron signals reported from his lab by Tanzella at the Catania conference. A copy of Tanzella's slide presentation is here.

"I don't want you showing Fran's graph with the neutron signal anymore," McKubre said. "It's bullshit. I don't believe it." "
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"2008- Storms and Hagelstein "There are No Neutrons"

Longtime "cold fusion" researcher, advocate and author Edmund Storms objected to discussion about neutrons in LENR. On Oct. 18, 2008, Storms sent the following message to the CMNS e-mail list:

"I'm confused about a discussion based on neutron emission from LENR. All of the published values for the flux of neutrons are near the sensitivity limit of the detector, if any are detected at all. Why are we now finding a flux high enough to warrant discussion? If neutrons are actually being emitted, they will produce all kinds of isotope changes that will result in beta decay. Such beta decay has not been observed, except on a few occasions, even though it would be easy to detect. What is the point of wasting time speculating on such reactions when no evidence exists for significant neutron emission?"

In fact, researchers were finding a flux high enough to warrant discussion.

The SPAWAR group’s researchers were seeing nuclear particle tracks on the backside of their solid-state nuclear track detectors inexplicable by anything other than neutrons.

Eleven days after Storms sent his message to the CMNS list, on Oct. 29, 2008, Peter Hagelstein gave a presentation at MIT about "cold fusion." Hagelstein, too, said that there were "no neutrons" in LENR.

Neutrons, whether spallation neutrons (secondary reactions) resulting from ultra-low-momentum neutrons (primary reactions) or from some other unexplained reaction, are inconsistent with the D+D "cold fusion" hypothesis, which McKubre, Hagelstein and Storms have so vigorously defended in this past decade."