Back in March, low levels of iodine-131 were found in rainwater in Massachusetts, not far from Rossi's New Hampshire Lab. The source was attribute to Fukushima, more or less by default (considering the coincidental timing).
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r-video/27338488/detail.html There is a small but finite possibility that the Fukushima explanation is incorrect, given what we know now. The main reason to suggest that this iodine isotope was not from the Japanese disaster is that radioiodine makes up only 3% of the net mass of isotopes released in a meltdown, and yet it was the only species detected in Mass. A smorgasbord of isotopes travel together in such a catastrophic release, seldom only one. What happened to the other 97% of isotopes? Yes, iodine is one of the easier ones to detect, but xenon and others, for instance, are very likely to be seen by the same detectors at the exactly the same time - whenever there has been a release that can be traced to an exact event. Plus with an 8 day half-life, there are roughly 3000 miles and hundreds of detectors situated west of Mass. and towards Japan - any one of which should have should have picked up this isotope if it was coming from Japan on prevailing winds. The wind patterns make it unlikely to have come east, from the Atlantic. The recent detection of iodine-131 in Europe is equally puzzling. There is no update on the http://www.iaea.org/ website yet. The detectors which are used for this are so sensitive, however, that another explanation is possible. Since this isotope is used in medicine, a single patient undergoing radiation therapy - who is physically near the detector can set it off, if so inclined (as in "nature calls"). This adds new meaning to the shorthand notation of "P-out," does it not? BTW almost all Iodine-131 production for medicine is from neutron-irradiation of a tellurium target. Irradiation of natural tellurium produces I-131 as the only radionuclide and it is very efficient since the tellurium is neutron heavy with a high cross section. It is a 'natural' to be used in LENR - if the W-L theory is correct, for instance. But mainly, all of this goes back to speculation that Bismuth telluride (or tellurium alone) is Rossi's secret catalyst. This possibility is related to the many years of R&D performed for DoE by Rossi (via Leonardo) when he was one of the main researchers for TEGs. There are also a number of other reasons why this molecule could become active for spillover hydrogen; but basically, it can be almost guaranteed that Rossi would have tried it with nano-nickel, early on, simply because he had lots of it in the Lab. Reputedly, AR - as an inventor, subscribes to the Edisonian approach of "try everything". Caveat: Admittedly and let's be crystal-clear that all of the above bits of evidence are weak, completely circumstantial - and unlikely to mean anything relevant to the Rossi E-Cat now, based on normal probabilities - and/or better explanations. Nevertheless, this is published here in order to provide a written record (in the Vortex archives), in case at a later date - accurate information emerges from IAEA or from Italian authorities about a radiation leak in the Bologna area for iodine-131 (and nothing else) ... or else Rossi or one of his customers admits that bismuth telluride is the secret catalyst... or worse ... a meltdown at a customer's facility. This is a dangerous isotope, and AR is acting a little nuttier than normal these days, no? Warm regards (in a radioisotopical kinda way) Jones
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