Navy Commander Halts SPAWAR LENR Research
May 13th, 2012I had a total of zero on-the-record submissions on the NANOR presentation and data, but some people who have been involved with U.S. Government research into LENR did communicate with me.
One of the issues that came up was that the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has inexplicably halted research into LENR. I was directed to an article about this, which I linked below.
A researcher explained to me that the “triple-tracks” particle pattern, with regard to LENR experiments, is a sort of genie that can’t be put back into the bottle. The literature is out there now for anyone who wants to look for it, even if the military brass hopes that this will go away somehow.
See, for example, Comparison of Pd/D co-deposition and DT neutron generated triple tracks observed in CR-39 detectors, European Physical Journal Applied Physics, 51, 20901 (2010):
Triple tracks have been observed in CR-39 detectors used in Pd/D co-deposition experiments. These triple tracks are indistinguishable from those generated using a DT neutron source. Both symmetric and asymmetric triple tracks have been observed. The most likely source of the neutrons responsible for the triple tracks is DT fusion inside the Pd lattice. This is supported by the observations of charged particles and neutrons consistent with primary and secondary fusion reactions. However, the possibility that these neutrons are created by an unknown nuclear process, as suggested by Roussetski, cannot be ruled out. Although theories are currently under development, the mechanism by which nuclear reactions can occur in Pd is not yet fully understood.
At least one LENR researcher, in her capacity as a private citizen, and not as a government employee, will soon be examining the NANOR system at MIT.
Via: New Energy Times:
After 23 years, researchers at the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, Calif., have been ordered to stop their low-energy nuclear reaction research.
