Editorial: The Developing Technology of Transmutation

This third issue of the Journal of New Energy will become an historic publication. Thanks to the efforts of Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M, John O’Malley Bockris (and his associate Dr. G.H. Lin) and co-host George Miley, editor of Fusion Technology, the second conference on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, September 13-14, 1996, College Station, Texas, is an historic event. This issue publishes most of the papers presented at that historic conference.

These proceedings, and the recent it past conference, mark the beginnings of a new understanding of some of the many and varied low-energy nuclear reactions. The phrase low-energy nuclear reactions is a euphemism for transmutation. The word transmutation may be offensive to many members of scientific academia who have thoroughly accepted the currently-taught model of the atomic nucleus. The belief that there are no possible low-energy methods to create nuclear reactions is strongly taught and strongly accepted by many scientists.

To our valued academic friends, we strongly encourage you to read carefully the detailed paper by Kenneth & Steve Shoulders. For over a decade, Kenneth Shoulders has been developing a variety of deices (inventions) based on the generation and control of high-density charge clusters (EVs). In his conference presentation, Shoulders offered specific experimental information on the role of the fracto-emission of EVs that may account for some, most, or all of the nuclear reactions in a variety of cold fusion devices. This insight into the role of nuclear EVs as an explanation for some of the experimental observations has prompted this editor to highlight (bold type) a few of the observations made in some of the papers herein.

On rare occasions, a variety of concepts presented in a conference results in a scientific or technological breakthrough. Such an event was the result of this conference. Because of the importance of this new understanding, a paper has been prepared and is included in this issue. This paper by Fox, Bass, and Jin has been peer-reviewed and approved for publication. In one sense, the paper summarizes and extends concepts presented in the conference. In this editor’s judgment, this paper represents the culmination of over seven years of a struggle to understand the real nature of low-energy nuclear reactions found in the study of cold nuclear fusion. In addition, a patent application has been filed with claims of a method and apparatus to produce thermal energy, ameliorate radioactive wastes, and transmute many of the elements in the periodic table. A new science and a new technology have begun!

Hal fox, Editor