I think at least an equal concern to radiation exposure is the incidental exposure to vented nickel tetracarbonyl vapor. I believe this can cause pulmonary distress at quite low concentrations. The tolerance for nickel tetracarbonyl may be quite low. The nickel tetracarbonyl can come from heating nickel with oxidized powders with something containing carbon. The carbon becomes CO and reacts with the nickel forming nickel tetracarbonyl - known in the industry as "liquid death".
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Russ George <russ.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > If speaking of conventional known radiations this comment about dose and > detection is true however in ‘cold fusion’ clearly the unknown is afoot. > One of those unknowns is what is it that can be there but not, or poorly, > be seen. For example what might be seen as a nominal presence near > background that can suddenly be made ‘visible’ to detectors where millirem > signals turn into kilorem! (micro-Sieverts to Sieverts if you prefer) > Fortunately the human body is more akin to our normal detectors than our > enhanced cold fusion mischegunon detectors so the harming dose equivalent > of those massive cold fusion radiations remains for us in health physics > terms as low doses. Still the better cold fusion cooks are sure to see the > most exposure and the nature of this new and still very poorly observed to > say nothing of described radiations is far from clear. More than a few cold > fusion scientists have succumbed already. As is said in ancient texts ‘one > does not catch the unknown in a net of the known.’ > > >
