Eric,
Where did you get the idea that soft x-rays were not harmful? In fact they are deadly, but not instantly deadly, if that makes them slightly less problematic. I guess the question is rhetorical and the answer is historic in a way: X-rays in extremely low dosages have been used in a therapeutic way; but some of that is quackery. The softest x-rays are 100 eV which – which is strongly ionizing – and if nothing else is the temperature equivalent of about one million degrees. Not to mention, soft x-rays can be carcinogenic, since most ionizing radiation is carcinogenic. However, this radiation can be used to kill cancer if well-focused. BTW – Mitchell Swartz was a radiation oncologist before getting into LENR and one suspects that if gammas were going to be a problem in experiments, even those with deuterium where they are far more likely to be witnessed - then you would hear about it from Mitchell. Sterling Allan, whom you quote - is a tireless PR person and promoter in the PT Barnum tradition - but not a scientist. Even Hadjichristos, listed as CTO of Defkalion has given no indication of being literate in several important scientific fields. Plus his boss - Xanthoulis - has already fingered him as a being a willing participant in industrial espionage (in the Sienna affair: http://ecatnews.com/?p=1500) so he has almost zero credibility as a working scientist, and would have lost his professional credentials in the USA. Jones From: Eric Walker This article does not shy away from making big claims about Defkalion's technology in development. In a different connection, there was this from Sterling Allan, which pertains to the discussion about gammas: Even though transmutation is a nuclear process, it is not a dangerous one. One US Company tested the Defkalion technology for about six months and reported that there was no harmful radiation emitted whatsoever (they thoroughly tested the full spectrum), and that only some gamma rays are emitted during the reaction -- but no more than you get from a household toaster -- well within safety limits. And sometimes, it doesn't even emit any harmless gamma radiation while it is operating -- puzzling the scientists who haven't yet figured that one out, who think that with every transmutation event there should be a gamma emission. I will point out that "no harmful radiation" does not necessarily exclude soft x-rays, unless I'm mistaken about their being benign. Eric
