Say, Abd, Jed, and Joshua, I'd like to offer a path beyond the
lengthly "'Tis"--"Taint" debate -- members of Vortex-L could plan and
carry out a simple, repeatable, low-cost LENR demonstration, including
standard kits (for which, except for deserving young students, could
be priced at $ 1,000, since at least the designated main organizer
(never me, possibly Abd) deserves reasonable income for pivotal
service) -- replicating the "water tree" fractal filament corrosion of
dense highly-cross-linked polyethylene, reported since 2005 to result
in anomalous isotopic ratios, such as 6% shift for Zn:

1. based on ongoing research for decades about a pesky electrical
engineering mystery.

2. low cost, safe 0.5 mm pieces of a highly pure solid firm -- what
area and density, impurities, melting point?

3. touted as explainable via Widom-Larsen theory -- is NASA already on it?

4. unlike gas or liquid experiments, the solid state preserves its
shape, so reaction sites can be examined in situ real-time, or the
film sliced or processed to determine all elements, structures, and
isotopes in 3D -- what are sizes and shapes of water trees?

5. thin films are easy to observe continuously from both sides.

6. the setup is slow to change.

7. the setup is cheap and small, easy to precisely replicate and run
arrays of cells at once.

8. very little power input, as a 3 KV AC voltage across a dielectric
film is run for days and weeks -- what leakage current power and
dielectric heating levels? -- which can be precisely monitored
continuously with high time resolution (Michael H. Barron, Santa Fe,
has a voltage supply that goes up to 1,000 V with picoamp current
accuracy).

9. voltage plates can be transparent very thin conducing films,
allowing adjacent layers of detector film to record charged and
neutral particle emissions, or camera imagery of THz to gamma EM
radiation -- micro microphone arrays could locate phonon sources and
spectra.

10. setup can be laid on top of a 16 Mpx CCD imaging chip for precise
recording of events, and stacked multiple chips would allow real-time
tracking of 3D trajectories of energetic emissions.

11. Jed could soon translate the Japanese reports.

12. the research could be completely transparent on-line at all
phases, including archived comments from anyone, demonstrating a
quantum mutation in the process of science -- possibly far cheaper,
faster, more creative and efficient, more open to simultaneous
multiple points of view, including "skeptics".

13. the self-organizing network could set up public protocols re
possible profitable products.

14. no hazards -- just how much mass of the anomalous isotopes are
appearing at what time scale and power density?

15 easy to apply external electric, magnetic, and EM fields in any
combination  and geometry.

16. NMR can also noninvasively monitor time and space information
about isotopic changes.

17. goal is not mysterious, fickle heat bursts, but precise study of
replicable isotopes and emissions.

18. setup can reach nano level size.

19. elastic film could trap emerging gases, creating bubbles that can
be studied and extracted.

20. low temperature regimes could be explored by using various
liquids, including H and He.


reactive gas micro and nano bubbles complicate Widom-Larsen theory re
electrolytic cells -- metal isotope anomalies in 'water tree'
corrosion of power cable polyethylene insulation, T Kumazawa et al
2005 -- 2008 Japan: Rich Murray 2011.06.02
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.htm
Thursday, June 2, 2011
[at end of each long page, click on Older Posts]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/85
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Last year I sent some long posts to Abd Lomax and Ed Storms about
recent mainstream research on micro and nano bubbles in electrolytes,
which are common on all size scales, and can be H2, O2, N2, Cl2...

I, and Ludvik Kowalsky, also posted that in the SPAWAR DPd
codeposition runs, when an external DC 6 KV electric field was across
the 2 cm wide square by 8 cm high cell with thin clear plastic walls,
ordinary electrostatics will cause the entire charge to be across the
two thin walls, and zero within the electrolyte -- however microamps
of leakage current through the walls will result in complex low
voltage currents within the electrolyte, its components, and all
surfaces.

Extraordinary Error -- no electric field exists inside a conducting liquid
in an insulated box with two external charged metal plates, re work by
SPAWAR on cold fusion since 2002 -- also hot spots from H and O
microbubbles: Rich Murray 2010.02.22
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.htm
Monday, February 22, 2010
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrodeep/message/42

Widom and Larsen have cited deterioration of plastic insulation on
underground power cables, fractal "water trees", eventually shorting
out the cable with conducting tree-like filaments, so it is reasonable
to suspect similar processes in the thin clear plastic cell walls at 6
KV DC.

Resulting complex leakage currents will variably produce micro and
nano bubbles of O2 and H2, which can react by collision within the
electrolyte, or by being drawn together on various surfaces, or into
cracks, voids, or tiny filaments, or by O2 bubbles, attached to the
surface, reacting with H that has been loaded as much as 1 to 1 ratio
within the Pd lattice surface.

It is easy to calculate that the H2 with O2 bubble reactions will
release enough energy to melt and vaporize about the same volume of Pd
as the reacting bubbles -- so this is a reasonable probability that
has to be included in any theory that explains the puzzling, complex
micropits that are observed in many different experiments.

The chemical reaction of H2 and O2 is very high, so it is reasonable
to see that, atom for atom, the weaker covalent bonding that keeps Pd
solid would be overcome for more atoms of Pd than the reacting atoms
of H and O.

In the range of bubble sizes from micro to nano, the mean free path of
the resulting hot, energetic, possibly ionized H2O molecules will be
larger than the bubbles, indicating that the reaction will be very
fast, ie, explosive.

Impurities on and within surfaces will catalyze the gas reactions, and
local high electric fields on sharp nano features and from external EM
radiation and surface plasmons will also affect the reactions.

All possible gases have to be considered, including N2, Cl2, CO, C02,
O3, hydrocarbons, plastic components, and vaporized metals.

So, this adds major, complex unknown possibilities to Widom-Larsen
theory and any attempts to test its predictions and interpretations.

All this will increase with time for a cell -- fractal deterioration
of the plastic cell walls, increased leakage currents, increasing
chemical and micro and nano particle complexity of the electrolyte,
evolving fractal erosion and deposition to all surfaces within the
cell, more dust and gases possibly coming into the cell from air leaks
-- so the phenomena within the cell will always be changing, and
sometimes discontinuously.

Varying the prior exposure of the clear plastic walls to UV or various
penetrating radiations, and to reactive chemicals, or making the
plastic surface rougher, using glass or SiO2, changing the DC voltage,
pulsing the DC voltage, or using AC at many frequencies would
necessitate extensive experimental grunt work.

I imagine turning 16 Mpx video chips into myriad low-cost cells by
plating them with, say, Pd or Ni, adding an insulating grid of SiO2 to
make a huge array of very thin nanocells, adding an electrolyte,
capping the array with a transparent conducting thin film, which would
be the anode -- then the time, location, and energy of any nano
reactions can be read out real time from the video array, while a
camera can record and store images of the whole array, zeroing in on
hotspots to record UV to IR, while any emitted radiations can be
detected.  Many variables could be studied simultaneously, by varying
them systematically for each nano cell in the array.  This would
enable the kind of specific precision measurements that allow theories
to be tested with well defined setups that catch specific events in
time and space.  Successful setups can be shared for replication by
different labs.


"...After extensive analysis, it was determined that a significant
number of such cable failures were caused by structural 'defects' that
'grew' over time in XPLE sheathing after in-ground installation.
Such defects came to be known in the electric utility business as
"water trees."
These so-called water (or electrochemical) trees are complex,
branching 3-D dendritic structures that grow outward from
conductor-XLPE interfaces in hydrophobic polymers in the presence of
electric fields and water...
...Further investigation over the past 5 years now suggests that
'contaminants' in water trees were not present anywhere in the cables
prior to being buried underground and used to carry electric power.
In 2005 and 2008, Kumazawa et al. of Chubu Electric Power Co., Tatsuta
Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd., and Osaka Prefecture University
reported experimental detection of nuclear transmutation products in
water trees in excellent papers published in the refereed Wiley
InterScience journal,
Electrical Engineering in Japan."

http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/WL/slides/2010July16LatticeEnergySlides.pdf
#8 - July 16, 2010 - 68 pages
Low Energy Neutron Reactions (LENRs) in Advanced Batteries and Other
Condensed Matter Environments.
Li-Ion Battery Fires.
Early LENR transmutation experimentsin 1920s.
High-current exploding wires.

slide 50  Unexpected degradation/failure of underground power cables

During the mid-1960s, a number of different electrical equipment
manufacturers developed technology for producing durable underground
AC or DC (copper or aluminum as the conductor) power cables carrying
up to 450 kV using cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) that replaced
layers of paper-oil for insulation.
When widespread global deployment of such power cables began in the
mid-1970s, it was widely believed they might enjoy trouble-free
in-ground lifetimes of at least 40 - 50 years before experiencing
significant rates of failure.
Much to everyone's surprise, unexpectedly high rates of premature
cable failures began to appear worldwide by the mid-1980s.
This is can be an expensive problem for utilities with large
deployments of underground cable within their grids, particularly in
case of high-current,
high voltage underground cables (up to 450 kV) used in many countries
such as Japan.
Unexpected service disruptions and expenses associated with digging-up
and repairing failed high-capacity underground power cables is an
issue for many electric utilities scattered around the world.
After extensive analysis, it was determined that a significant number
of such cable failures were caused by structural 'defects' that 'grew'
over time in XPLE sheathing after in-ground installation.
Such defects came to be known in the electric utility business as
"water trees."
These so-called water (or electrochemical) trees are complex,
branching 3-D dendritic structures that grow outward from
conductor-XLPE interfaces in hydrophobic polymers in the presence of
electric fields and water.
Evidence indicates that in damaged regions of XLPE sheaths, water
trees consist of random 'tracks' of oxidized polymer that interconnect
a series of microvoids.
The greater the density of such microvoids in XLPE sheathing, the
greater the likelihood that water trees, once formed, will continue to
grow and connect, eventually causing significant degradation of XLPE
insulation's effectiveness and eventually, potentially catastrophic
cable failure.
Until very recently, specifics of the conditions under which water
trees form and grow in XLPE cables, as well as the physico-chemical
mechanisms underlying such phenomena, were something of a mystery.
Early work on failed cables determined that a variety of different
anomalous 'contaminants' were present in and around water trees.
This was initially thought to result from problems with either quality
control in the XLPE chemical manufacturing process and/or in the
bonding chemistry at the interface between the XLPE and the metallic
conductive cable (copper or aluminum).
Oddly, additional study appeared to rule-out those possibilities as
the source of the anomalous 'contaminants' associated with water
trees.
Further investigation over the past 5 years now suggests that
'contaminants' in water trees were not present anywhere in the cables
prior to being buried underground and used to carry electric power.
In 2005 and 2008, Kumazawa et al. of Chubu Electric Power Co., Tatsuta
Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd., and Osaka Prefecture University
reported experimental detection of nuclear transmutation products in
water trees in excellent papers published in the refereed Wiley
InterScience journal,
Electrical Engineering in Japan.

"...Furthermore, the isotopic content of Zn deviated over 6% from
natural abundance.
These results suggest that water tree propagation is related to
unknown physical or electrochemical reactions."

slide 51  Important Japanese experiments help unravel mystery - 1 Reference:
T. Kumazawa 1, W. Nakagawa 2, and H. Tsurumaru 2,
"A Study on Behavior of Inorganic Impurities in Water Tree,“
Electrical Engineering in Japan 153, No. 2, 2005
Translated from
Denki Gakkai Ronbunshi, Vol. 124-A, No. 9, September 2004, pp. 827–836
1 Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., Japan
2 Tatsuta Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd., Japan

Abstract:

"It is well known that water tree propagation in XLPE cable is
significantly influenced by inorganic impurities in water.
Therefore, we investigated both changes in concentration and deviation
of isotopic content of inorganic elements in XLPE samples by water
tree experiments in a clean [room] environment.
The concentration of several kinds of elements (e.g., Li, Na, Mg, Al,
K, Ca, Fe, Ni, Pb, and Bi) in water-tree sample showed anomalous
increase or decrease dependent on cation (K+, Na+, or Ag+) in water
solution compared with blank or original samples.
Furthermore, the isotopic content of Zn deviated over 6% from natural abundance.
These results suggest that water tree propagation is related to
unknown physical or electrochemical reactions."


'Clean room' - sample contamination not a significant issue:
Please note that Kumazawa et al.'s carefully controlled laboratory
experiments with 'water trees' described in this reference were
conducted under rigorous electronic 'clean room' conditions, so
contamination from outside sources is not a problematic issue in their
mass spectroscopy measurements, that is, their detection of LENR
nuclear transmutation products in and around the "water trees" growing
inside the XLPE power cable insulation in their experiments.

Quoting directly from their 2005 paper:
"Various models have been proposed regarding the mechanism by which
water trees, an important form of deterioration in XLPE cable, are
created and propagated.
Initially, theories which modeled the physical breakdown mechanism of
XLPE (cross-linked polyethylene) based on Maxwell stress and
dielectrophoresis in the concentric field were frequently seen.
... On the other hand, because no general correlation has been seen
between the development of water trees and oxidation products, there
have also been reports suggesting an unknown chemical reaction that
XLPE, oxygen, or ions participate in.
Given this background, the authors attempted to discover
experimentally whether or not an unknown breakdown mechanism could
exist separate from
conventional ideas.
The focus of this attempt is impurities frequently detected in regions
with water tree deterioration. In particular, inorganic elements
(metallic ions) are known to participate significantly in the
occurrence and development of water trees.
This is thought to suggest that an important message for understanding
the key to this mechanism is hidden in these 'traces.'
Thus, the authors generate water trees in XLPE samples in as clean an
environment as possible, and then explore in detail the concentration
of inorganic elements and the changes to their isotopic content
present in the samples … the authors discuss the source and features
of these
variable elements."

http://www.iscmns.org/iccf14/ProcICCF14b.pdf

Proceedings of the
14th International Conference on
Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
and the
14th International Conference on
Cold Fusion (ICCF-14)
10-15 August 2008
Washington DC
Volume 2
General Editors:
David J. Nagel and Michael E. Melich
Theory Editors:
Rodney W. Johnson and Scott R. Chubb
Copy Editor:
Jed Rothwell
ISBN: 978-0-578-06694-3

482
The “water tree” in the title of the paper by Hideo Kozima and Hiroshi
Date (17) is a
micron-scale defect, filled with electrolyte, which forms in
polyethylene subjected to intense
electric fields and has been implicated in failures of
polyethylene-insulated power lines. The
authors propose an explanation for observations by T. Kumazawa et al.
that suggest various
transmutations associated with the formation of water trees. The
explanation is based on the
authors’ “neutron-drop model,” developed in earlier work, which
hypothesized the existence of
a "dense neutron liquid at boundary / surface regions of . . .
crystals" that contains "neutron
drops," denoted A ZΔ, having Z protons, Z electrons, and (A − Z)
neutrons. The transmutations in
question could be attributed to absorption by a nucleus of a neutron,
with or without subsequent
beta-decay, or to absorption of a 4 2d or an 8 4d

618-622
Nuclear Transmutations in Polyethylene (XLPE) Films and Water Tree
Generation in Them
Hideo Kozima and Hiroshi Date*
Cold Fusion Research Laboratory ( hjrfq...@ybb.ne.jp )
597-16 Yatsu, Aoi, Shizuoka, 421-1202, Japan
*Recruit R&D Staffing Co., Ltd.

Abstract

An explanation of the nuclear transmutation (NT) observed in XLPE
(crosslinked polyethylene) films is presented based on the
neutron-drop model used in the theoretical investigation of the cold
fusion phenomenon in other cold fusion materials (CF materials);
transition-metal hydrides/deuterides. The NT’s, K -> Ca, Mg -> Al, 56
26Fe -> 57 26Fe and Fe -> Ni, are explained by a single-neutron
absorption with or without a succeeding beta-decay to get final
nuclides
On the other hand, the NT’s, 56 26Fe -> 64 30Zn and 56 26Fe ->  60
28Ni, are explained by an absorption of a neutron drop 8 4d and 4 2d,
respectively, in the cf-matter formed in CF materials.
Production of extraordinary elements Li, Pb and Bi is discussed from
our point of view.
Thus, we concluded that the generation of water trees in XLPE samples
is caused by nuclear reactions induced by cold fusion phenomenon at
around spherulites.
The NT found in XLPE may have a relation with the NT’s found in
biological bodies (biotransmutation).

1. Introduction

We have tried to explain the wide-spread experimental facts in the
cold fusion phenomenon
(CFP) from a unified point of view using a phenomenological models,
the trapped neutron
catalyzed fusion model (TNCF model) at first [1] and then the
neutron-drop model (ND
model), a generalized version of the former [2]. It should be
remembered here that the
development of the model demands an explanation for NT’s with large
changes of the nucleon
and proton numbers observed in the CFP.

In the process of verification of the basic premises of these
successful models, we have
developed a quantal investigation of the CF materials such as transition metal
hydrides/deuterides composed of a host lattice of transition metals
and interlaced lattice of
interstitial protons/deuterons [3]. It was shown that it is possible
for cf-matter to exist when it is
composed of neutron drops A Zd with Z protons, Z electrons and (A – Z)
neutrons in a dense
neutron liquid at boundary /surface regions of the crystals.

Recently, Kumazawa et al. [4, 5] observed the nuclear transmutation (NT) in XLPE
(closslinked polyethylene) including water trees, and then detected
weak mission of gamma or
X-rays from similar samples [6]. Their results show, generally
speaking, that water trees are
formed macroscopically at boundaries of XLPE samples and
microscopically at amorphous
portions of the sample among spherulites composed of crystalline
lamellae. Use of heavy water
instead of light water did not show any positive effect on the
occurrence of NT [5]

The NT observed in the XLPE films by Kumazawa et al. [4–6] has
characteristics in
common with CF materials as a part of the CFP. Therefore, it is
natural to apply the same
model (TNCF model) [1, 2] to explain the NT in XLPE that successfully
explained the NT in
the CF materials [3].

2. Experimental Facts about Water Tree in Cross-linked Polyethylene (XLPE)

We give an explanation of characteristics of the experimental data
sets obtained by
Kumazawa et al. [4 -- 6] in this section.

2.1 Summary of Experimental Data Sets obtained by Kumazawa et al.

We can summarize the experimental results obtained by Kumazawa et al.
[4--6] as follows:
In the experiments, a XLPE (cross-linked polyethylene) sheet 0.5 mm
thick was used.
Au was deposited as a ground electrode onto the bottom surface of the sample.
Then, the sample was dipped in aqueous solutions of electrolytes
(a) KCl, (b) NaCl and (c) AgNO3 to make the Blank samples.
The Blank samples were placed in the aqueous solutions, and electric fields
with high -frequency (2.4–3.0 kHz) and high-voltage (3.0 – 4.0 kV/mm)
were applied between the voltage application wire above the sample and
the ground electrode for 140 -- 320 hours to obtain
"the samples after voltage application"
(let us call them the Experimental samples, for simplicity).
Quantitative analysis of elements were performed for
(I) the Original, (II) the Blank and (III) the Experimental samples
for three electrolytes (a) KCl, (b) NaCl and (c) AgNO3.
In the case (c), there are no data on the blank samples
but data on the two distinct regions selected visually
(i) with water trees and (ii) without water trees.

Characteristics in the changes of elements from
(I) the Original to (II) the Blank and (III) the Experimental samples
were summarized as follows:

In case (a) (KCl),
(1) K decreased and Ca increased,
(2) 56 Fe decreased and 57 Fe increased,
(3) 64 Zn increased while other isotopes of Zn decreased.

In case (b) (NaCl),
(4) Mg decreased and Al increased in which the gross weight of the two
elements was hardly
different compared to the Blank or the Original samples.

In case (c) (AgNO3),
(5) Fe decreased and Ni increased,
(6) New elements Li, Na, Pb and Bi were detected, and
(7) There are changes of elements in both regions with and without water trees.

Furthermore, there are interesting features of the blank samples (II)
in case (a);

(8) In Blank samples, Mg and Ca are increased from those in the
Original one while Fe is decreased.

In their second paper, [5] Kumazawa et al. reported detection of weak
and burst-like radiation, which they assumed was low energy gamma or
X-rays. In the CFP, there are a few observations of gamma and X-rays
but they are peripheral (cf. Section 6.3 of [1] for the data of gamma
ray observation).
We concentrate our investigation in this paper to the data reported in
the first paper [4].

3. Explanation of Nuclear Transmutation in XLPE by the TNCF Model

3.1 Microscopic Structure of Polyethylene (PE), Lamella and Spherulites in XLPE

The lengths of the C-C and C-H bonds of PE are estimated as 1.54 and
1.09A, respectively.
The carbon chain is composed of tetrahedrally connected carbons with
an angle between two C-C bonds of 109.5 degree.
A lamella has a lattice structure with ordered carbon nuclei (lattice
nuclei) interlaced with ordered protons even when the structure is not
so simple, as in the case of transition-metal hydrides/deuterides.
The size of spherulites, crystal components of solid polyethylene,
also depends on conditions in which the sample is produced and ranges
from ~1 um to ~1 mm, in general.
The ratio of portions occupied by crystalline component and amorphous
component of a solid PE sample depends also on the conditions.

3.2 Cold Fusion (CF) Matter in XLPE

It is natural to investigate nuclear transmutations observed in XLPE
with the same phenomenological approach as that used to analyze the
CFP observed in transition-metal hydrides/deuterides as a first step.
We have to notice common factors in transition-metal
hydrides/deuterides and XLPE if we take the point of view explained
above.
First of all, (1) there are crystalline structures of host and
hydrogen isotopes in both cases.
Second, (2) the reaction products of nuclear transmutations were found
localized in boundary or surface regions of crystalline structure in
both cases. Third, (3) the neutron affinity we have defined to specify
responsibility
of nuclides for the CFP [1, 2] is positive (favorable for the CFP) for
C (2.22 MeV for 6 12C) in XLPE and
Ti (0.602 for 22 48Ti, for instance),
Ni (4.80 for 28 58Ni),
Pd (2.097 for 46 105Pd) in transition-metal hydrides/deuterides.

Lattice constants of CF materials are tabulated in Table 1.

Table 1. Lattice constants of host nuclides lattices
Host nuclides Lattice constants (Å)
Ti (hcp) a = 2.95, c = 4.792
Ni (fcc) a = 3.52
Pd (fcc) a = 3.89
XLPE (orthorhombic) a = 7.40, b = 4.93, c = 2.53621

>From our point of view, the super-nuclear interaction between neutrons
mediated by protons/deuterons in lattice nuclei (carbon in the case of
XLPE), cross-linking in XLPE is decisive; cross-linking protons
(covalent bonded to two carbon atoms) mediate the interaction of
neutrons in carbon nuclei
12 6C on adjacent PE chains.

3.3 Explanation of Nuclear Transmutation in XLPE where observed Water Trees

(1) Decrease of K and increase of Ca in the case (a) are explained by
such a reaction in the solids by absorption of a neutron followed by
beta decay with a liberated energy dE = 1.31 MeV;
n + 39 19K → 40 20K* → 40 20Ca + e-  + νe,  (anK39 = 2.10 b) (3-1)
where νe is an electron neutrino.
As a measure of the reaction cross-section in solids we cited the
value in free space in the parenthesis behind the equation.

(2) Decrease of 56 26Fe and increase of 57 26Fe in the case (a) are
similarly explained but without beta decay due to the stability of 57
26Fe with an energy Q = 1.15 keV transferred to the lattice system
instead of gamma ray emission in free space;
n + 56 26Fe → 57 26Fe + Q.  (anFe56 = 2.81 b) (3-2)

(3) Increase of 64 30Zn and decrease of 66 30Zn, 67 30Zn and 68 30Zn
in the case (a) are explained by using the neutron drop A Zd, for
example;
56 26Fe + 8 4d → 64 30Zn. (3-3)
The decrease in other isotopes may be explained by nuclear reactions
to transform them into other elements but its details are left for
another work.

(4) Increase of Al and decrease of Mg in the case (b) are explained by
reactions similar to (3-2) with Q = 7.08 MeV and Q' = 12.11 MeV and a
reaction similar to (3-1) with dE = 2.61 MeV.
n + 24 12Mg → 25 12Mg + Q.   (anMg24 = 0.05 b)
n + 25 12Mg → 26 12Mg + Q'.   (anMg25 = 0.19 b)
n + 26 12Mg → 27 12Mg*  → 27 13Al + e-  + νe.  (anMg26 = 0.04 b)

(5) Decrease of Fe and increase of Ni in the case (c) are explained
similarly with use of the neutron drop, for example;
56 26Fe + 4 2d → 60 28Ni.

Thus, we may imagine the following scenario of growth of a water tree:
(i) a NT of impurity nuclides occurs at a boundary region heating
there by a liberated energy,
(ii) a seed of a water tree is induced by the liberated energy, and
(iii) the applied high-frequency electric field makes the water tree grow.

The NT’s in phenanthrene [7] may have close relation with that in XLPE
discussed in this paper.

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to express their thanks to Hiroshi Yamada of
Iwate University and Takao Kumazawa of Chubu Electric Power Co. for
their valuable discussions on the work by Kumazawa et al.
This work is supported by a grant from the New York Community Trust.

References

1. H. Kozima,
Discovery of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon -- Evolution of the Solid
State Nuclear Physics and the Energy Crisis in 21st Century,
Ohtake Shuppan KK., Tokyo, Japan, 1998. ISBN 4-87186-044-2 (S10.1 Bio-
transmutation)

2. H. Kozima,
The Science of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon,
Elsevier Science, 2006. ISBN-10: 0-08-045110-1.

3. H. Kozima,
"Physics of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon"
Proc. ICCF13 (2007, to be published).

4. T. Kumazawa, W. Nakagawa and H. Tsurumaru,
"A Study on Behavior of Inorganic Impurities in Water Tree"
Electrical Engineering in Japan 153, 1 – 13 (2005). (Experiment with
Light Water)

5. T. Kumazawa, W. Nakagawa and H. Tsurumaru,
"Experimental Study on Behavior of Bow-tie Tree Generation by Using Heavy Water"
(in Japanese) IEEJ Trans. FM, 126, 863 -- 868 (2006). (Experiment with
Heavy Water)

6. T. Kumazawa and R. Taniguchi,
"Detection of Weak Radiation Involving Generation and Progress of Water Tree"
(in Japanese) IEEJ Trans. FM, 127, 89 -- 96 (2007). (Experiment with
Light Soft and Hard Waters)

7. T. Mizuno, K. Kurokawa, K. Azumi, S. Sawada and H. Kozima,
"Heat Generation during Hydrogenation of Carbon (Phenanthrene)",
Proc. ICCF14 (to be published).


http://web.pdx.edu/~pdx00210/Papers/paperr/paperr14.pdf
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http://www2.iee.or.jp/ver2/honbu/14-magazine/log/2007/2007pdf-a/2007_02a_06.pdf
1 page extended summary, weak radiation,
Takao Kumazawa, Youirichi Taniguchi
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