Many thanks, Jed.
Would there be any utility to taking your text and adding some formatting to
resemble the actual report? (I'm not suggesting that you must be the one to
do it.)
Lawry
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From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com]
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[Here is the corrected text from the DIA report,
ABBYY version. Unfortunately, this is not the
underlying text in the version I uploaded. That
has more OCR errors. I believe there are no OCR
errors here, but I have not checked closely. - JR]
UNCLASSIFIED
Defense Intelligence Agency
Defense Analysis Report
DIA-08-0911-003
13 November 2009
Technology Forecast: Worldwide Research on
Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing and Gaining Acceptance
Scientists worldwide have been quietly
investigating low-energy nuclear reactions
(LENR)for the past 20 years. Researchers in this
controversial field are now claiming
paradigm-shifting results, including generation
of large amounts of excess heat, nuclear activity
and transmutation of elements.1,2,3 Although no
current theory exists to explain all the reported
phenomena, some scientists now believe
quantum-level nuclear reactions may be occurring.
DIA assesses with high confidence that if LENR
can produce nuclear-origin energy at room
temperatures, this disruptive technology could
revolutionize energy production and storage,
since nuclear reactions release millions of times
more energy per unit mass than do any known chemical fuel.4,5
Background
In 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons
announced that their electrochemical experiments
had produced excess energy under standard
temperature and pressure conditions.6 Because
they could not explain this physical phenomenon
based on known chemical reactions, they suggested
the excess heat could be nuclear in origin.
However, their experiments did not show the
radiation or radioactivity expected from a
nuclear reaction. Many researchers attempted to
replicate the results and failed. As a result,
the physics community disparaged their work as
lacking credibility, and the press mistakenly
dubbed it "cold fusion." Related research also
suffered from the negative publicity of cold
fusion for the past 20 years, but many scientists
believed something important was occurring and
continued their research with little or no
visibility. For years, scientists were intrigued
by the possibility of producing large amounts of
clean energy through LENR, and now this research
has begun to be accepted in the scientific
community as reproducible and legitimate.
Source Summary Statement
This assessment is based on analysis of a wide
body of intelligence reporting, most of which is
open source information including scientific
briefings, peer-reviewed technical journals,
international scientific conference proceedings,
interviews with scientific experts and technical
media. While there is little classified data on
this topic due to the S&T nature of the
information and the lack of collection, DIA
judges that these open sources generally provide
the most reliable intelligence available on this
topic. The information in this report has been
corroborated and reviewed by U.S. technology
experts who are familiar with the data and the
international scientists involved in this work.
Although much skepticism remains, LENR programs
are receiving increased support worldwide,
including state sponsorship and funding from
major corporations.7,8,9,10 DIA assesses that
Japan and Italy are leaders in the field,
although Russia, China, Israel, and India" are
devoting significant resources to this work in the hope of finding a new
clean
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED
energy source. Scientists worldwide have been
reporting anomalous excess heat production, as
well as evidence of nuclear particles12,13,14 and transmutation.15,16,17
.Y. Iwamura18 at Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries first detected transmutation of
elements when permeating deuterium through palladium metal in 2002.
.Researchers led by Y. Arata at Osaka
University in Japan19 and a team led by
V.Violante at ENEA in Italy (the Italian National Agency for New
Technologies,
20
Energy, and the Environment-the equivalent to the
U.S. Department of Energy) also made transmutation claims.
Additional indications of transmutation have been
reported in China, Russia, France, Ukraine, and the United States.21,
Researchers in Japan, Italy, Israel, and the
United States have all reported detecting
evidence of nuclear particle emissions.23,24
Chinese researchers described LENR experiments in
1991 that generated so much heat that they caused
an explosion that was not believed to be chemical in origin."
Japanese, French, and U.S. scientists also have
reported rapid, high-energy LENR releases leading
to laboratory explosions, according to scientific
journal articles from
