Alan J Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: Any other links to "labs blowing up" and "window melting" ? >
I don't know about windows melting. I listed 5 incidents in chapter 12 of my book. I have heard there have been other explosions but I have no specific information on them. I have heard that cold fusion experiments in China have often exploded. I think they are doing a lot of glow discharge, similar to the Mizuno's experiment that exploded. That is a very unstable reaction. The university ordered Mizuno to stop doing that experiment after the accident. One of the glass shards went deep into his neck, next to the carotid artery. I probably would have stopped that myself. His phenanthrene hydrogenation experiment seems dangerous to me. Several experts told me that given the temperatures and pressures he uses, his steel cells are on the verge of exploding. He is not doing that experiment either these days. The building he is in is not zoned for it. His old building, which he left upon retirement, was torn down because it was falling to pieces and also because it was nuclear waste hazard site, after years of unregulated academic experiments in nuclear engineering, by Mizuno and many others. There were 10 cm cracks in the walls, and lots of what looked like abandoned radwaste to me. These Japanese professors don't have much regard for safety. After I visited Takahashi, I showed a Japanese physicist friend of mine a video of the visit made by Russ George. A guy who works in industry, mainly microelectronics, where safety standards are better than academia. The video showed all kinds of rubbish lying around the linear accelerator building, including rusting steel motorbike engines and wheels, which you find in every building on a Japanese university campus. He paused, and said thoughtfully "well, you have already had children . . ." Here are quotes from chapter 12: 1. February 1985, Fleischmann and Pons, University of Utah, United States. One the early cells exploded in the campus laboratory. 2. September 1989, T. P. Radhakrishnan *et al.*, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India. The electrolyte temperature “shot up” from 71°C to 80°C and the cell exploded. [1]<file:///C:/Fusion/Book/Cold%20Fusion%20and%20the%20Future.docx#_ftn1> 3. April 1991, X. Zhang *et al.*, Institute of Southwest Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, China. [2]<file:///C:/Fusion/Book/Cold%20Fusion%20and%20the%20Future.docx#_ftn2>Three explosions occurred in cells with palladium tube cathodes. Two of these explosions destroyed the glass cells, blowing the tops 1 to 2 meters away. About a half hour after one event, the temperature of the bath surrounding the cell was found to be elevated 5°C. There was 33 ml of gas in the cell headspace, roughly 40 times less than it would take to cause these events. 4. September 2004, J-P. Biberian, Université d’Aix-Marseille II, France. A cell with a palladium tube cathode exploded. The cell had no more than 120 ml of gas in the headspace, which does not seem like enough to cause a chemical explosion of this magnitude. 5. January 2005. Mizuno *et al.*, Hokkaido University, Japan. In the first phase of a glow discharge experiment, before the plasma normally appears, the cell temperature suddenly rose to 80°C and a bright white flash surrounded the cathode. An instant later the cell was shattered, blowing off the Pyrex safety door of the cell container. Shards of glass were driven up to 6 meters away, and one of them injured Mizuno. The explosion produced roughly 132,000 joules, or 441 times more than the total input energy. [3]<file:///C:/Fusion/Book/Cold%20Fusion%20and%20the%20Future.docx#_ftn3> ------------------------------ [1]<file:///C:/Fusion/Book/Cold%20Fusion%20and%20the%20Future.docx#_ftnref1>Radhakrishnan, T.P., et al., *Tritium Generation during Electrolysis Experiment*, in *BARC Studies in Cold Fusion*, P.K. Iyengar and M. Srinivasan, Editors. 1989, Atomic Energy Commission: Bombay. p. A 6. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Radhakrishtritiumgen.pdf [2]<file:///C:/Fusion/Book/Cold%20Fusion%20and%20the%20Future.docx#_ftnref2>Zhang, X., et al. *On the Explosion in a Deuterium/Palladium Electrolytic System*. in *Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, "Frontiers of Cold Fusion"*. 1992. Nagoya Japan: Universal Academy Press, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ZhangXontheexplo.pdf [3]<file:///C:/Fusion/Book/Cold%20Fusion%20and%20the%20Future.docx#_ftnref3>Mizuno, T. and Y. Toriyabe. *Anomalous energy generation during conventional electrolysis*. in *The 12th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science*. 2005. Yokohama, Japan. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTanomalouse.pdf
