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| This paper provides an update on key developments since the first public announcement of the discovery of acoustic inertial confinement (bubble) nuclear fusion. A theoretical foundation for supercompression of acoustically driven deuterated bubble clusters has also been developed and published. Initially, bubble fusion experiments used external neutron sources for nucleating bubble clusters and despite compelling evidence lingering doubts remained due to the use of external neutrons for maintaining the chain reaction. This was overcome in 2006 using a self-nucleation method. In these novel experiments, seeding of nanometer bubbles was accomplished using alpha recoils from dissolved uranyl nitrate salt. Bubble fusion experiments have been successfully replicated in public demonstrations and by unaffiliated groups of scientists, and the results confirmed and reported at least four times since 2005. Speculative statements on bubble fusion have been addressed and dismissed as unfounded and misguided. A full-scope three-dimensional Monte Carlo based study was recently completed and published in archival journal after peer review in 2008. Self-nucleated and external neutron nucleated bubble fusion experiments were modeled and analyzed for neutron spectral characteristics for all successful published bubble fusion studies. The results of this archive confirm for the record that confusion and controversies caused from past reports in Nature have resulted from neglect of important details of bubble fusion experiments. Results from the successful bubble fusion studies and the 2008 archive demonstrate that ice-pack shielding between detectors and source, gamma photon leakage and neutron pulse-pileup due to picosecond duration neutron pulse emission play important roles in affecting the spectra of neutrons from D-D thermonuclear bubble fusion experiments. |
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New Energy Technology
8:30 AM-11:25 AM, Monday, March 23, 2009 Hilton -- Alpine Ballroom West, Oral
Division of Environmental Chemistry |