From: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
Subject: Home from war
Reply-To: Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com>
Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:11:33 GMT

To: >INTERNET:fusion@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG

Greetings everyone. I am home for the weekend on R&R. Starting a company
is tough business. Thirteen years ago, I swore I would never do it again,
yet here I am. (Maybe I am a masochist?)

Some people have asked that I upload the two papers we submitted to
Fusion Technology. I would love to do that, but unfortunately, the main
paper is full of graphs, tables, superscripts and subscripts. Also it is
not in electronic form. So I am stuck having to mail it and fax it. We
made 200 copies of each and we have no objection whatsoever to people
passing them.

Here are the abstracts. If anyone wants a copy, please contact me.
Unfortunately, I have been completely out of touch in Washington, because
I cannot access E-Mail there. I feel like I have fallen down a well. I
think the telephone lines are now installed and enabled, and I bought yet
another portable computer. This one speaks English, my other one is pure
Japanese.

I will try to address some of the other comments and concerns raised
here, but I am in a mad rush, trying to do 60 zillion other things, as I
am sure you can imagine. On top of everything else, my car is busted and
they can't find anything wrong with it, except it won't go over 50 mph
uphill. They suggested I take it back and see if the problem has gone
away. These auto mechanics have a strange sense of humor.

I have not had time to read the E-Mail properly, but I think nobody here
mentioned the interesting little Science magazine article "A Yen For Cold
Fusion" I think it was.


PRE-PUBLICATION COPY

"The Nucleon Cluster Model and Thermal Neutron Fission"

Completed December 31, 1989

Revised March 22, 1990

SUBMITTED TO FUSION TECHNOLOGY, August 7, 1992


THE NUCLEON CLUSTER MODEL AND THERMAL NEUTRON FISSION

R.A. Brightsen, Clustron Sciences Corporation (CSC), Vienna, Virginia and
L.C. Washington, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland

NEW PHONE NUMBERS (previously listed ones at Venture America also work):

Tel: 703-827-4064
Fax: 703-827-4066
ABSTRACT

          Utilizing a new Nucleon Cluster Model (NCM) of the nucleus, the
overall nature of which is summarized herein, the process of thermal
neutron fission is described. Know experimental results are explained and
quantified. Using the NCM, fission yield curves, the average number of
prompt neutrons per fission (v) and the emission of light charged particles
(LCP) are all derived. The quantitative relationships presented provide an
excellent fit to well-know data and systematically describe a framework for
the fission process. The Nucleon Cluster Model (NCM) suggests that fission
takes place in four modes. This paper describes the light and heavy
fragments for each fission mode, as well as their unique and systematic
prompt neutron and light charge particle yields. Well established
experimental results for thermal neutron fission of U-235, as well as U-
233, Pu-239 and Pu-241, are accurately reproduced for the first time since
fission was discovered in 1939. These results provide support for the
validity of the Nucleon Cluster Model.


"Explanation of Cold Fusion Reactions Based on the Nucleon Cluster Model
(NCM)

by Ronald A. Brightsen and Eugene F. Mallove
Clustron Sciences Corporation
8230 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA  22182

ABSTRACT

     The applicability of the Nucleon Cluster Model (NCM) to explaining
cold fusion is described, including a brief synopsis of the path that
author R.A. Brightsen followed after successfully applying the NCM to
earlier nuclear issues, such as the selection rules for beta stability of
isotopes and the precise characteristics of thermal neutron fission.  The
three most significant features of the NCM Cold Fusion Model are: (1) Its
ability to provide a unified explanation for excess heat of nuclear origin
in both dominantly D2O and dominantly H2O electrochemical cells; (2) Its
ability to explain observed reaction products: neutrons, tritium, and
helium; (3) Its ability to explain why nuclear reaction end products
commensurate with observed excess heat have not been found inside cold
fusion cells.  The explanation lies in the unsuspected structure of the
proton, which is required by the Nucleon Cluster Model of the nucleus as
the bridge between matter and antimatter.  The implications of this
realization will have profound significance for much of physics, chemistry,
and a host of power generation and other technologies.

- Jed

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