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- From: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
- Subject: Home from war
- Message-ID: <920815153029_72240.1256_EHL34-1@CompuServe.COM>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:11:33 GMT
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- To: >INTERNET:fusion@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
-
- Greetings everyone. I am home for the weekend on R&R. Starting a company
- is tough business. Thirteen years ago, I swore I would never do it again,
- yet here I am. (Maybe I am a masochist?)
-
- Some people have asked that I upload the two papers we submitted to
- Fusion Technology. I would love to do that, but unfortunately, the main
- paper is full of graphs, tables, superscripts and subscripts. Also it is
- not in electronic form. So I am stuck having to mail it and fax it. We
- made 200 copies of each and we have no objection whatsoever to people
- passing them.
-
- Here are the abstracts. If anyone wants a copy, please contact me.
- Unfortunately, I have been completely out of touch in Washington, because
- I cannot access E-Mail there. I feel like I have fallen down a well. I
- think the telephone lines are now installed and enabled, and I bought yet
- another portable computer. This one speaks English, my other one is pure
- Japanese.
-
- I will try to address some of the other comments and concerns raised
- here, but I am in a mad rush, trying to do 60 zillion other things, as I
- am sure you can imagine. On top of everything else, my car is busted and
- they can't find anything wrong with it, except it won't go over 50 mph
- uphill. They suggested I take it back and see if the problem has gone
- away. These auto mechanics have a strange sense of humor.
-
- I have not had time to read the E-Mail properly, but I think nobody here
- mentioned the interesting little Science magazine article "A Yen For Cold
- Fusion" I think it was.
-
-
- PRE-PUBLICATION COPY
-
- "The Nucleon Cluster Model and Thermal Neutron Fission"
-
- Completed December 31, 1989
-
- Revised March 22, 1990
-
- SUBMITTED TO FUSION TECHNOLOGY, August 7, 1992
-
-
- THE NUCLEON CLUSTER MODEL AND THERMAL NEUTRON FISSION
-
- R.A. Brightsen, Clustron Sciences Corporation (CSC), Vienna, Virginia and
- L.C. Washington, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland, College
- Park, Maryland
-
- NEW PHONE NUMBERS (previously listed ones at Venture America also work):
-
- Tel: 703-827-4064
- Fax: 703-827-4066
- ABSTRACT
-
- Utilizing a new Nucleon Cluster Model (NCM) of the nucleus, the
- overall nature of which is summarized herein, the process of thermal
- neutron fission is described. Know experimental results are explained and
- quantified. Using the NCM, fission yield curves, the average number of
- prompt neutrons per fission (v) and the emission of light charged particles
- (LCP) are all derived. The quantitative relationships presented provide an
- excellent fit to well-know data and systematically describe a framework for
- the fission process. The Nucleon Cluster Model (NCM) suggests that fission
- takes place in four modes. This paper describes the light and heavy
- fragments for each fission mode, as well as their unique and systematic
- prompt neutron and light charge particle yields. Well established
- experimental results for thermal neutron fission of U-235, as well as U-
- 233, Pu-239 and Pu-241, are accurately reproduced for the first time since
- fission was discovered in 1939. These results provide support for the
- validity of the Nucleon Cluster Model.
-
-
- "Explanation of Cold Fusion Reactions Based on the Nucleon Cluster Model
- (NCM)
-
- by Ronald A. Brightsen and Eugene F. Mallove
- Clustron Sciences Corporation
- 8230 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182
-
- ABSTRACT
-
- The applicability of the Nucleon Cluster Model (NCM) to explaining
- cold fusion is described, including a brief synopsis of the path that
- author R.A. Brightsen followed after successfully applying the NCM to
- earlier nuclear issues, such as the selection rules for beta stability of
- isotopes and the precise characteristics of thermal neutron fission. The
- three most significant features of the NCM Cold Fusion Model are: (1) Its
- ability to provide a unified explanation for excess heat of nuclear origin
- in both dominantly D2O and dominantly H2O electrochemical cells; (2) Its
- ability to explain observed reaction products: neutrons, tritium, and
- helium; (3) Its ability to explain why nuclear reaction end products
- commensurate with observed excess heat have not been found inside cold
- fusion cells. The explanation lies in the unsuspected structure of the
- proton, which is required by the Nucleon Cluster Model of the nucleus as
- the bridge between matter and antimatter. The implications of this
- realization will have profound significance for much of physics, chemistry,
- and a host of power generation and other technologies.
-
- - Jed
-
-