Kelley Trezise <ktrez2...@ssvecnet.com> wrote: ** > In what proportions are these transmutations occuring. If they are > one-hundredthousandth of the amount of fusion of deurium and so contribute > little in the way of net heat out . . . >
As far as I know, they contribute far less energy than the deuterium reactions. they are just a side reaction but an important one as they provide > testament of a nuclear reaction. > True again. But they may be very important as a clue to how the reaction works. The question becomes: What sort of principle reaction can give rise to intermittent transmutations as a side-effect? That would include transmuting deuterium into tritium, by the way. - Jed
