A light water excess heat reaction suggests that cold fusion may be alkali-hydrogen fusion

Journal Article · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · Fusion Technology; (United States)

OSTI ID:7246994

Bush, R T ^[1]

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1. California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona, CA (United States)

This paper reports that Mills and Kneizys presented data in support of a light water excess heat reaction obtained with an electrolytic cell highly reminiscent of the Fleischmann-Pons cold fusion cell. The claim of Mills and Kneizys that their excess heat reaction can be explained on the basis of a novel chemistry, which supposedly also explains cold fusion, is rejected in favor of their reaction being, instead, a light water cold fusion reaction. It is the first known light water cold fusion reaction to exhibit excess heat, it may serve as a prototype to expand our understanding of cold fusion. From this new reactions are deduced, including those common to past cold fusion studies. This broader pattern of nuclear reactions is typically seen to involve a fusion of the nuclides of the alkali atoms with the simplest of the alkali-type nuclides, namely, protons, deuterons, and tritons. Thus, the term alkali-hydrogen fusion seems appropriate for this new type of reaction with three subclasses: alkali-hydrogen fusion, alkali-deuterium fusion, and alkali-tritium fusion. A new three-dimensional transmission resonance model (TRM) is sketched. Finally, preliminary experimental evidence in support of the hypothesis of a light water nuclear reaction and alkali-hydrogen fusion is reported. Evidence is presented that appears to strongly implicate the transmission resonance phenomenon of the new TRM.

• OSTI ID: 7246994
• Journal Information: Fusion Technology; (United States), Vol. 22:2; ISSN 0748-1896
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
COLD FUSION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
ALKALI METALS
BOSONS
DEUTERONS
ELECTROLYTES
ELECTROLYTIC CELLS
HEAT
MOESSBAUER EFFECT
PRODUCTION
PROTONS
RUBIDIUM CARBONATES
STRONTIUM
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
TRITONS
WATER
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS
ALKALINE EARTH METALS
BARYONS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBONATES
CHARGED PARTICLES
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ELEMENTS
ENERGY
FERMIONS
HADRONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
METALS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEONS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RUBIDIUM COMPOUNDS
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