Proceedings of the 5th International Conference

on Cold Fusion ‑ ICCF5

 

Table of Contents

 

Session 1 ‑ Introduction

 

1  Status of "Cold Fusion". Edmund Storms

 

Session 2 ‑ Calorimetry and Excess Power

 

17  Concerning Reproducibility of Excess Power Production. MC.H. McKubre, S. Crouch-Baker, A.K. Hauser, S.1 Smedley, F.L. Tanzella, MS. Williams, S.S. Wing

 

34  Power Excess Production in Electrolysis Experiments at ENEA Frascati. L. Bertalot, A. De Ninno, F. De Marco, A. La Barbera, F. Scaramuzzi, V Violante

 

41  Anomalous Heat Evolution of Deuteron Implanted Al on Electron Bombardment. K. Kamada, H. Kinoshita, H. Takahashi

 

49  Excess Heat Measurement in AlLa03 Doped With Deuterium. Jean‑Paul Bibirian

 

57  High Power gs Pulsed Electrolysis using Palladium Wires: Evidence for a Possible "Phase" Transition under Deuterium Overloaded Conditions and Related Excess Heat. F. Celani, A. Spallone, P. Tripodi, A. Petrocchi, D. Di Gioacchino, P. Marini, V Di Stefano, S. Pace, A. Mancini

 

69  Experimental Correlation between Excess Heat and Nuclear Products. A. Takahashi, T. Inokuchi, Y Chimi, T Ikegawa, N. Kaji, Y. Nitta, K. Kobayashi, M Taniguchi

 

79  Flowing Electrolyte Calorimetry. Dennis Cravens

 

87  Present Status and the Perspective of New Hydrogen Energy Project. Naoto Asami, Kazuaki Matsui, Fumihiko Hasegawa

 

97  The Extraction of Information from an Integrating Open Calorimeter in Fleischmann-Pons Effect Experiments. Melvin H. Miles

 

105  Studies on Fleischmann‑Pons Calorimetry with ICARUS 1. Toshiya Saito, Masao Sumi, Naoto Asami, Hideo Ikegami

 

116  Correlation of Excess Heat and Neutron Emission in Pd‑Li‑D Electrolysis. H Ogawa, S Yoshida, Y Yoshinaga, M Aida, M 0kamoto

 

120  Simultaneous Measurement Device of Heat and Neutron of Heavy Water Electrolysis with Palladium Cathode. Y Asaoka, T Ichiji, T Fujita, T Matsumura

 

124  Heat Production and Trial to Detect Nuclear Products from Palladium‑Deuterium Electrolysis Cells. Shigeru Isagawa, Yukio Kanda, Takenori Suzuki

 

132  Effect of Boron for the Heat Production at the Heavy Water Electrolysis Using Palladium Cathodes. K Ota, K Yamaki, S. Tanabe, H Yoshitake, N. Kamiya

 

136  Electrolysis of Heavy Water with a Palladium and Sulfate Composite. G. Noble, J Dash, M Breiling, L. McNasser


140  More about Positive Feedback; More about Boiling. M Fleischmann

 

152  The Experimenters' Regress. M Fleischmann

 

Session 3 ‑ Nuclear Measurements and Instrumentation

 

163  Some Experiments on the Decrease of the Radioactivity of Tritium Sorbed by Titanium. Otto Reifenschweiler

 

173  Evidence For Tritium Generation in Self‑Heated Nickel Wires Subjected to Hydrogen Gas Absorption/Desorption Cycles. TK Sankaranarayanan, M Srinivasan, MB. Bajpai, D.S. Gupta

 

181  Observation of High Multiplicity Bursts of Neutrons During Electrolysis of Heavy Water with Palladium Cathode Using the Dead Time Filtering Technique. A. Shyam, M Srinivasan, T C. Kaushik, L. V Kulkarni

 

189  Observation of Nuclear Products under Vacuum Condition from Deuterated Palladium with High Loading Ratio. Takehiko Roh, Yasuhiro Iwamura, Nobuaki Gotoh, khiro Toyoda

 

197  Characteristic X‑Ray and Neutron Emissions from Electrochemically Deuterated Palladium. Yasuhiro lwamura, Nobuaki Goloh, Takehiko Roh, Ichiro Toyoda

 

201  Cold Fusion and Anomalous Effects in Deuteron Conductors during Non‑Stationary High-Temperature Electrolysis. A.L. Samgin, 0. V. Finodeyev, S.A. Tsvetkov, VS. Andreev, VA. Khokhlov, E.S. Filatov, 1 V Murygin, V.A Gorelov, S. V. Vakarin

 

209  Radioactivity of the Cathode Samples After Glow Discharge. LB. Savvatimova, A.B. Karabut

 

213  Nuclear Reaction Products Registration on the Cathode after Glow, Discharge. Irina Savvatimova, A leksandr Karabut

 

223  Excess Heat Measurements In Glow Discharge Using Flow "Calorimeter‑2". A.B. Karabilt, Ya.R Kucherov, LB. Savvatimova

 

227  Influence of Perfection of the Sodium Tungsten Bronze Single Crystals on Neutron Emission. S. V. Vakarin, A.L. Samgin, VS. Andreev, SA. Tsvetkov

 

233  Search For 4He Production from Pd/D2 Systems in Gas Phase. E. Botta, R Bracco, T Bressani, D. Calvo, V Cela, C. Fanara, U Ferracin, F. lazzi

 

241  High Energy Phenomena In Glow Discharge Experiments. A.B. Karabut, S.A. Kolomeychenko, LB. Savvatimova

 

251  D2 Release Process from Deuterated Palladium in a Vacuum. K Shikano, H. Shinojima, H. Kanbe

 

255  Studies of d‑d Reactions in Deuterated Palladium by using Low‑Energy Deuterium Ion Bombardment. Hiroyuki Shinojima, Takashi Nishioka, Koji Shikano, Hiroshi Kanbe

 

259  Neutrons Observations in Cold Fusion Experiments. Lino Daddi

 

Session 4 ‑ Theory and Modelling

 

265  Setting Cold Fusion in Context: A Reply. Giuliano Preparata 285 Solving the Puzzle of Excess Heat without Strong Nuclear Radiation. Xing Zhong Li

 

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293  Uncertainties of the Conventional Theories and New Improved Formulations of Low-Energy Nuclear Fusion Reactions. Yeong E. Kim, Alexander L. Zubarev

 

315  The Ion Band State Theory. T.A. Chubb, S.R. Chubb

 

327  Update on Neutron Transfer Reactions. Peter L. Hagelstein

 

339  The Electron Catalysed Fusion Model (ECI'M) Reconsidered with Special Emphasis upon the Production of Tritium and Neutrons. P, Bush

 

343  A Model For The Impurity Promotion and Inhibition of the Excess Heat Effects of Cold Fusion. R. Bush

 

347  Nuclear Processes in Trapped Neutron Catalysed Model for Cold Fusion. Hideo Kozima, Seyi Watanabe

 

355  Collision between Two Deuterons in Condensed Matter: Ion Trap Mechanism. V Violante, A. De Ninno

 

361  On One of Energy Generation Mechanism In Unitary Quantum Theory. Lev G. Sapogin

 

367  Optimisation of Output in a Cold Fusion Generator. Robert Indech, Rubin Karshenboym

 

373  Two‑Dimensional Proton Conductors. William S. Page

 

379  Centripetal De Broglie Wave Fields Connected to Particles at Rest Explain Cold Fusion and the Particle Wave Duality. 01af Sundin

 

Session 5 ‑ Cathode Loading and Materials

 

383  Materials/Surface Aspects of Hydrogen/Deuterium Loading into Pd Cathode. J Minato, T Nakata, S. Denzumi, Y Yamamoto, A. Takahashi, H. ;4ida, Y 7suchida, H, Akita, K Kunimatsu

 

407  Numerical Simulation of Deuterium Loading Profile in Palladium and Palladium Alloy Plates from Experimental Data Obtained using ps Pulsed Electrolysis. F. Celani, A. Petrocchi, A. Spallone, P. Tripodi, D. DiGioacchino, M Nakamura, P. Marini, V Di Stefano, G. Preparata, M Verpelli

 

411  Study of Deuterium Charging Behaviour in Palladium and Palladium Alloy Plates, Changing Surface Treatments, by gs Pulsed Electrolysis. F. Celani, A. Spallone, P. Tripodi, A. Petrocchi, D. Di Gioacchino, P. Marini, V Di Stefano, M Diociaiuti, A. Mancini

 

419  Approach to Obtain Higher Deuterium Loading Ratios of Palladium Cathodes. Hikaru 0kamoto, Toshiyuki Sano, Yosuke Oyabe, Toshihisa Terazawa, Tamio Ohi

 

431  Some Thermodynamic Properties of the H(D)‑Pd System. S Crouch‑Baker, MCH. McKubre, F.L. Tanzella

 

441  An Experimental Method to Measure the Rate of H(D)‑absorption by a Pd Cathode during the Electrolysis of an Aqueous Solution: Advantages and Disadvantages. M Alguer6, JF. Ferndndez, F Cuevas, C. Sdnchez

 

449  Electrolytic Deuterium Absorption by I'd Cathode and a Consideration for High D/Pd Ratio. N. Hasegawa, M Sumi, M Takahashi, T Senjuh, N. Asami, T Sakai, T Shigemitsu

 

457  An Experimental System for "Cold Fusion" Experiments with Self‑Produced Iodide Titanium Films. F. Cuevas, JF. Ferndndez, M Alguer6, C. Sdnchez



461  Protocol For Controlled and Rapid Load ing/Un loading of H2/D2 Gas in Self‑Heated Pd Wires To Trigger Nuclear Events. A.B. Garg, R.K Rout, M Srinivasan, TK Sankaranarayanan, A. Shyam, L. V Kulkarni

 

465  Preliminary Results on the Variation of Electrical Resistance of a TiDx Wire with Deuterium Concentration. V.K. Shrikhande, TC. Kaushik, S KH. Auluck, A. Shyam, M Srinivasan

 

469  Boson Condensation Involved in Radiation‑less Fusion. II. Spinodal Decomposition of Palladium/Palladium Deuteride System and the Andreev Effect. James T Waber, Ouliana L. Egorova­Cheesman

 

Session 6 ‑ New Developments, Approaches and Systems

 

483  Excess Heat and Mechanism in Cold Fusion Reaction. Y Arata, E -C. Zhang

 

495  Excess Energy in the System Palladium/Hydrogen Isotopes. Measurement of the Excess Energy per Atom Hydrogen. J Dufour, J. Foos, JP. Millot

 

505  "Cold Fusion" in Terms of New Quantum Chemistry: The Role of Magnetic Interactions in Dense Physica Media. R.D. Antanasyevic, Dj. Konjevic, Z Maric, D.M Sevic, JP. Vigier, A.J Zaric

 

523  Sonofusion. Compressibility of Liquid and Stability of Spherical Cavity. Kenji Fukushima

 

531  Nuclear Products of Cold Fusion Caused by Electrolysis in Alkali Metallic Ions Solutions. Reiko Notoya

 

539  Biological Effects of Ultrasonic Cavitation. T V Prevenslik

 

547  Anomalous Heat Effects and Cold Fusion in KD2PO4 Crystals on the Ferroelectric Phase Transition. V.A. Kuznetsov, A.G. Lipson, E.I. Saunin, TS. 1vanova

 

563  Possible Observation of the First Excited State of He4 Nucleus According to the ƒÁEmission Data in KD2PO4 Crystals upon Transition through Curie Point. A. G. Lipson, I.L Bardyshev, D.M Sakov

 

571  Amplification of the Neutron Flux Transmitted through KD2PO4 Single Crystal at the Ferroelectric Phase Transition State. A. G. Lipson, D.M Sakov

 

579  In Situ ERD Analysis of Hydrogen Isotopes during Deuterium Implantation of Pd. Akira Kitamura, Takakazu Saitoh, Hiroshi Roh

 

583  Cold Fusion Experiments using Sparking Discharges in Water. Takaaki Matsumoto

 

589  A Development Approach for Cold Fusion. Bruce Klein

 

597  A Model For Commercialisation Utilizing Patents. Frederick G. Jaeger

 

603  Charting the Way Forward in the EPRI Research Program on Deuterated Metals. Thomas 0. Passell

 

619  Synthesis of Substance and Generation of Heat in Charcoal Cathode in Electrolysis of H20 and D20 using Various Alkali-hydroxides. Ryoji Takahashi

 

623  Experimental Evidences for the Harmonic Oscillator Resonance and Electron Accumulation Model of Cold Fusion. Michel Rambaut

 

627  Nuclear Reactions of Cold Fusion: A Systematic Study. W.JMFI Collis

 

631  Transformation from Heat of Low Temperature Sources into Work; Fundamentals for a Maximum of Efficiency. Maurizio Vignali

 

635  Cold Fusion and Quantum Mechanics. Alexandre Laforgue

 

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