In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 25 May 2013 00:20:10 -0700: Hi, Sorry, I'm pretty much restricted to what I can do in my living room, with what's available to me.
[snip] >Nice sanity check. The next thing to check would be to put your alpha >source in heavy water. :) > >1. Without the PC board interposed. >2. With the PC board interposed. > >But note that 5 MeV is a lot lower than 23 MeV. Can you obtain a more >energetic alpha source? > >Am I right in assuming that heavy water is more likely to give rise to >secondary neutrons by way of 4He(d,np)4He spallation and d(d,n)3He >secondary reactions than deuterated palladium? > >Eric Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
