On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote:
Ni61 is non reactive as stated by DGT and confirmed by Mizuno as presented > in Cook's !CCF-18 presentation > I interpret the "depletion analysis" differently than presented in Cook's presentation (e.g., slide 52 [1]). If 61Ni sits in the middle of a chain of neutron captures, it will be a kind of hump that must be crossed, where any that is taken away (e.g., by transition to 62Ni) is given back by transitions from lower isotopes. I.e., it participates quite a bit, rather than very little, contrary to what Norman Cook seems to be saying. There is also this nice quote (slide 37): The raw data suggest that Ni-58 and Ni-60 were consumed, while neutrons > were added to Ni-61, Ni-62 and Ni-64, but “depletion analysis” indicates > otherwise… If Norman Cook has misinterpreted the data, as I think he might have, then Mizuno's results would appear to fit quite nicely with Rossi's recent results. (Almost too nicely.) Eric [1] https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/36817/SimulationNuclearTransmutationPresentation.pdf?sequence=2
