Ed,
Personally, I don't think CF is being suppressed. This would
require an intent and effort to accomplish. In contrast, I
think it is simply ignored because most people think it is not
real.
Lets dispense with the term "CF" for a moment ...
....you would agree, would you not, that if the electrolytic
loading of D2 into cathodes of U metal were able to transmute some
significant percentage of the 238 into fissionable material, then
there is a huge non-proliferation risk, no?
That is, IMHO, where the prior "official" initial attempts at
suppression may have arisen. However, I doubt that this kind of
transmutation can take place in anything over trace amounts (Dash
et al).
Certainly with thorium, which has been better investigated, the
evidence indicates that transmutation has the effect of converting
fertile material to harmless material - which is the opposite of
what a terrorist would want.
I suspect that people who have looked at the corresponding
situation with U have come to the similar conclusion - that: just
as with thorium, there is no added proliferation risk from heavy
water electrolysis of uranium.
Jones
