Correction of prior information:
Americium is THE prime candidate so far, if it should turn out that the Rossi reactor has been 'seeded' with an isotope emitter which serves to stimulate a cascade of QED enhanced nuclear reactions which then effectively convert nickel to copper. Here is the corrected detail for the best isotope that has turned up so far. Consider the Am-243 isotope with a 5.44 MeV decay energy, used in NMR and smoke detectors. Thomas Prevenslik notes (in Fran's posting) the 2.6 MeV threshold level for transmutation of nickel to copper via proton capture (you may or may not want to label that as fusion). .which . you guessed it - is about half the expected mass energy of the Am-243 decay. The idea being that *hydrogen in a QED cavity* (Casimir cavity) might be expected to be resonant for coupling to a photon of the threshold value, when there is an enhanced probability field at a harmonic of that value. Coincidental? Admittedly not a great fit, as catalysts go - but is it close enough for government contracting ? Maybe you do not want a 'great fit' - since it comes with the risk of a chain reaction? Jones
