From: Axil Axil * http://www.i2u2.org/elab/cosmic/posters/display.jsp?name=poster.lead.cool.man.data
* The Effects of Lead Shielding on Muon Counts…. If you are near a LENR reactor, tt looks like lots of muons will get to and into the body. I wonder if muons are harmful? Aside from the possible (likely) harm from muons, the curious and disturbing thing about this paper is that the authors: 1) expected to see a decreasing rate of muon counts as more lead above the detectors was added, 2) They were extremely surprised to see that when going from 15cm to 20cm of lead, the count rate of muons actually increased 3) This data point was extremely unexpected. They had expected that the rate of decrease of the muon count rates would have slowed, but the last thing expected was for the count rates to actually increase. That is a lot of lead, first of all. Even then, it never blocked all the muons. For the muon count to increase, with thicker lead, this means that some kind of chain reaction is happening above a thickness level, but muon keep progressing thought the metal. As an analogy – (of how LENR could benefit from this) consider the known parameters of fission … a chain reaction of neutrons is the driver of fission reactors, and thus the concept of a chain reaction of muons is intriguing. Can muons be harvested? As for using this information in a practical manner, the main problem is that tons of lead would be needed for even a small reactor - and in the end – the question is whether they can be converted into energy.
