A Review of the Investigations of the Fleischmann-Pons Phenomena

On an electrode producing massive quantities of tritium and helium

“…The cutting operation was performed quickly, the time the Pd was out of liquid N, was less than 1 min, the Pd rod remaining well below room temperature. Figure 2 shows how the Pd electrode was cut and the position of cut discs used for surface analysis and for 3 He and 4 He analysis. The first piece (No.…”

“…2 for one of the 90° segments) into smaller pieces of approx. 30 mg, and analyzed for 3 He and 4 He.…”

“…Palladium samples which had shown tritium production, platinum anode samples and non-electrolyzed Pd electrode samples were sent, packed in solid CO 2 , to Rockwell International, Los Angeles, CA, for 3 He and 4 He analysis by mass spectrometry. Cut palladium discs (Fig.…”

“…reviews in refs. [1][2][3][4]. Thus, there is evidence for the production (after some hundreds of hours) of excess heat in the region of 10-30% (0.5-100 W cm -3 , with reports up to 1 kW cm -3 ); neutrons in the range 1-10 n s -1 cm -2 with occasional reports of 10 6 n s -1 cm -2 in bursts; tritium, several times above background with 20% of the reports amounting to 10 -3 -10 -5 above background; helium in the electrode at up to 100 times background.…”

“…Thus, the most obvious and direct proof of fusion is the production of tritium from deuterium and we have gone principally in this direction. 4 More than 40 reports exist from different groups concerning the formation of T above the enrichment. The palladium electrode was 1.6 cm in length and 1 cm in diameter (99.99% Pd).…”