On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote:
It appeared that the reaction heat continued even though the fuel had been > converted to 6Li and 62Ni. How is this explained in your theory? > Some thoughts here: - It's an open question as to whether and how much excess heat the Lugano authors were really seeing. (It might have been a lot, it might have been a little, or it might have been pure Joule heating.) - If there's neutron stripping along the lines of 7Li → 6Li, giving rise to 58Ni → ... → 62Ni, this process might not be the only neutron stripping one going on, and perhaps not even the primary one. That would allow the excess heat, if there was excess heat, to continue after that part of the fuel was spent. (If this particular process was an important one, I would expect some kind of rate change to show up in the data once the 7Li was spent.) Eric
