http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ClaytorTNtritiumprob.pdf
This paper from LANL (and dozens of other papers on tritium) should erase all doubts about tritium production - and also illuminate the major problem in LENR. Why doesn't Eugen avail himself of the online resources? This is 15 year old material. The interesting thing about table 1 in this paper is the order of magnitude increase in the same alloy. One batch was clearly superior to another batch of the same alloy. IOW there is an unknown "dopant" apparently - or other factor which makes the tritium rate go way up in two alloys which appear identical but were from different batches. Since they were melt-spun, the difference could have been in slight variations in the parameters of manufacturing. That "unknown" factor is emblematic of the problems in larger field of LENR. There is (or was) an unknown factor which is keeping the experiments unreliable - and a massive level of engineering is the only way to approach it. I doubt if the Rhenium alloy was chosen at random - but there are literally 10,000 other alloys which should be investigated. That is why Rossi is such a disappointment (unless he salvages something) - his results promised the robustness which had been lacking but sadly have not yet been proved. From: Jed Rothwell Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: Definitely, and at 100 W sustained power your experiment will soon breed enough curies to kill you without sufficient shielding. Not with cold fusion. The ratio of tritium to heat is not the same with cold fusion as it is with plasma fusion. The ratio is not fixed, either.
