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- From: Robert_W_Horst@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Radioactive cathodes
- Message-ID: <62859@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 16:15:48 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- If the Ying experiment turns out to be the key to getting
- reproducible results, the energy output may depend on the
- amount of radiation reaching the cathode. A way to increase
- the intensity would be to form an alloy of the palladium
- along with the alpha source (Po 210), and also possibly the
- gamma source (Co 60). I tried to look up some information on
- these alloys, but came up with nothing. Can anyone comment
- on whether this would be feasible? This technique would
- obviously be more useful for use in production devices rather
- than for experiments.
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- Recent reports of the current P&F experiments indicate that
- they are now using some alloy rather than pure palladium.
- Could it be that they have intentionally or inadvertently
- included a low-level radioactive source in the alloy?
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-
- -- Bob Horst
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