ICCF-10 Proceedings

The Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-10) was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts 24 – 29 August 2003. This page in our Special Collections an electronic version of the conference proceedings. It includes papers, PowerPoint presentations from lectures, and poster session material.

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Some Highlighted ICCF-10 Papers

A paper by Higashiyama (of Osaka University) describes a replication of the Iwamura (Mitsubishi) transmutation experiment, performed with assistance from Mitsubishi. The results were confirmed at Osaka U. and at one of Japan’s preeminent laboratories, the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). These transmutations have also been confirmed in tests with one of the best instruments in the world, at Probion Analysis, Inc., in France. This is described in one of Iwamura’s papers published in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. (The abstract and URL for this paper are here.)

One of the most notable presentations at ICCF-10 was made by F. Gordon, of the SPAWAR Systems Center, U.S. Navy, Polarized D+/Pd-D2O System: Hot Spots and ” Mini-Explosions” . We are pleased to present the PowerPoint slides from this presentation. Gordon also showed a short, dramatic computer video from the IR detector showing that the excess heat originates in ” hot spots” in the cathode. We hope this video can be made available either at the Navy website or here at LENR-CANR.org. An excitingpaper and PowerPoint slides from Letts and Cravens describe laser stimulated cold fusion. See also the photographs below, and the paper from Cravens.

ICCF-10 began with an informal but intense one-day Short Course on LENR, on August 25. Here are detailed PowerPoint slides presented during the Course by M. McKubre, showing some of the most remarkable cold fusion results on record, and some of the most precise conventional water-based calorimeters in the world.

Abstracts

Here are the ICCF-10 Abstracts, in Acrobat PDF format (1.5 MB). Abstracts are sorted by the principal author’s last name

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Photos from the Conference

Three excess heat experiments were shown in live demonstrations at ICCF10, including two on August 26, in a laboratory at MIT that was open to the public:

A cell in a precision calorimeter was shown by Mitchell Swartz and Gayle Verner at MIT.
An excess heat cell and a blank control cell was shown by John Dash and his students, also at MIT. This experiment was conducted by high school students working at the Portland State University, Low Energy Nuclear Laboratory.
A cell located in Texas was demonstrated over an Internet video link by Dennis Cravens and Dennis Letts during their lectures.

Description of Dash Experiment

A control cell containing two platinum foil electrodes and an electrolyte containing sulfuric acid and light water is connected in series to an experimental cell containing a platinum foil anode, a palladium foil cathode, and an electrolyte containing sulfuric acid and heavy water. After passing current for several hours, the experimental cell is found to produce up to four watts of excess thermal power in comparison to the control cell. Excess heat is produced in about 75% of the experiments. Evidence of localized concentrations of silver is found on most of the palladium electrodes after electrolysis. Three high school students and a graduate performed the demonstration and discussed their results with conference participants.

John Dash and Shelsea Pedersen explain the experiment to Mahadev Srinivasan.

Corissa Lee shows a cell to Charles Beaudette and Jed Rothwell.

The experiment by Dash et al., Portland State University, Low Energy Nuclear Laboratory.

Close-up of the cells in the Dash experiment.

Ben Zimmerman stands in front of a chart showing excess heat results obtained during the conference.

See more photos of the students under “A Look At Experiments.”

Mitchell Swartz explains his high precision calorimetry, in another experiment shown at MIT.

Cravens and Letts dual-laser stimulated cold fusion.

Cravens and Letts demonstrated laser stimulated cold fusion. Here is a recent photo from the LABCAM showing dual laser stimulation. At ICCF-10, McKubre and Storms both reported replications of the laser stimulation Letts’ effect. The Storms paper is available here.

Cravens and Letts experiment display.

The cell continued to produce excess heat after the conference. Here is a look at results as of September 11, 2003. See also the paper and PowerPoint slides from Dennis Letts (which are also in the sample Proceedings list, below).

One of the many fascinating slides shown by McKubre during the Short Course on LENR at ICCF-10.

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PROCEEDINGS

Recnum	Author	All Authors	Year Published	Title	Publisher	DateUploaded	Abstract	Keywords	SearchAll
19	Adamenko, S.	Adamenko, S., Vysotskii, V.	2003	Experimental Observation And A Possible Way To The Creation Of Anomalous Isotopes And Stable Superheavy Nuclei Via The Electron-Nucleus Collapse	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2009-12-14	The problem of supercompression of a solid target to a collapse state is considered. The basic principles of construction and the parameters of an experimental setup ensuring such a supercompression are described. The model and method of creation and evolution of superheavy nuclear clusters with 250<A<500 and A>3000-5000 in the controlled collapse zone and in the volume of a remote accumulating screen are discussed. The evolution of such clusters results in the synthesis of isotopes with 1<A<500 and with anomalous spatial distribution in the volume of a remote screen. These phenomena were interpreted on the basis of the idea of the formation of a self-organizing and self-supporting collapse of the electron-nucleus plasma under the action of a coherent driver up to a state close to the nuclear substance.	superheavy nuclei	Adamenko, S., Vysotskii, V. 2003 Experimental Observation And A Possible Way To The Creation Of Anomalous Isotopes And Stable Superheavy Nuclei Via The Electron-Nucleus Collapse Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion The problem of supercompression of a solid target to a collapse state is considered. The basic principles of construction and the parameters of an experimental setup ensuring such a supercompression are described. The model and method of creation and evolution of superheavy nuclear clusters with 250<A<500 and A>3000-5000 in the controlled collapse zone and in the volume of a remote accumulating screen are discussed. The evolution of such clusters results in the synthesis of isotopes with 1<A<500 and with anomalous spatial distribution in the volume of a remote screen. These phenomena were interpreted on the basis of the idea of the formation of a self-organizing and self-supporting collapse of the electron-nucleus plasma under the action of a coherent driver up to a state close to the nuclear substance. superheavy nuclei
29	Afonichev, D.	Afonichev, D.	2003	Ascending Diffusion Or Transmutation	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2018-12-20	In any field of investigations new ideas in combination with newly developed equipment can provide advance results. In view of arising interest to cold nuclear fusion (CNF) [1] and searches for consequences of its occurrence the study of the interaction of hydrogen with metals has coincided with the wide spread of the micro-probe X-ray spectrum analysis. This analysis is performed during measurements of alloying element concentration [1] with resolution of about 1x1 ?m2.	transmutation	Afonichev, D. 2003 Ascending Diffusion Or Transmutation Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion In any field of investigations new ideas in combination with newly developed equipment can provide advance results. In view of arising interest to cold nuclear fusion (CNF) [1] and searches for consequences of its occurrence the study of the interaction of hydrogen with metals has coincided with the wide spread of the micro-probe X-ray spectrum analysis. This analysis is performed during measurements of alloying element concentration [1] with resolution of about 1x1 ?m2. transmutation
30	Afonichev, D.	Afonichev, D.	2003	High-Frequency Radiation And Tritium Channel	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2023-05-09	In the process of deformation at a temperature T=710?C of titanium alloy samples preliminarily saturated by deuterium a radiation, which is not a neutron flow was detected. Electromagnetic radiation in the range of radio frequencies was detected in titanium alloy samples in the process of their saturation by deuterium. The probable mechanism of its occurrence may be a retardation of charged particles in the metallic matrix.	tritium, neutron, Ti	Afonichev, D. 2003 High-Frequency Radiation And Tritium Channel Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion In the process of deformation at a temperature T=710?C of titanium alloy samples preliminarily saturated by deuterium a radiation, which is not a neutron flow was detected. Electromagnetic radiation in the range of radio frequencies was detected in titanium alloy samples in the process of their saturation by deuterium. The probable mechanism of its occurrence may be a retardation of charged particles in the metallic matrix. tritium, neutron, Ti
150	Arata, Y.	Arata, Y., Zhang, Y.	2003	Development of Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Using Solid Pycnodeuterium as Nuclear Fuel	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2003-12-11	Based on the functioning of Pd black inside a DS-Cathode, which has produced irrefutable evidence for the existence of solid nuclear fusion, new materials were developed to absorb abundant D/H atoms, up to levels as high as 300% of Pd number. These absorbed atoms were solidified densely inside each unit cell of the host lattice as solid-state "Pycnodeuterium" or "Pycnohydrogen." Stimulation energy with Pycnodeuterium easily caused intense solid-state nuclear fusion, whereas with Pycnohydrogen no reaction occurred. As the result, it was clarified that Pycnodeuterium is by far the best nuclear fuel compared to all other nuclear fuels.	Palladium Black, pressure	Arata, Y., Zhang, Y. 2003 Development of Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Using Solid Pycnodeuterium as Nuclear Fuel Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion Based on the functioning of Pd black inside a DS-Cathode, which has produced irrefutable evidence for the existence of solid nuclear fusion, new materials were developed to absorb abundant D/H atoms, up to levels as high as 300% of Pd number. These absorbed atoms were solidified densely inside each unit cell of the host lattice as solid-state "Pycnodeuterium" or "Pycnohydrogen." Stimulation energy with Pycnodeuterium easily caused intense solid-state nuclear fusion, whereas with Pycnohydrogen no reaction occurred. As the result, it was clarified that Pycnodeuterium is by far the best nuclear fuel compared to all other nuclear fuels. Palladium Black, pressure
256	Bass, R. W.	Bass, R. W.	2003	Optimal laser wavelength for resonant transmission through the coulomb barrier	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2012-04-16	The 1993 point-particle, 1-D semi-classical quantum-mechanical theory of resonant transparency of the Coulomb barrier [1], though admittedly crude, has some plausibility as to relevance and adequacy because it predicts quantitatively different results for lattices of protons versus deuterons embedded in host lattices of palladium versus nickel. Specifically it predicts that cold fusion is likely with Ni cathodes and electrolysis with either ordinary or heavy water, whereas it is likely only for heavy-water electrolysis with Pd cathodes. The question of whether or not this 1993 theory has any predictive power regarding the 2003 Letts-Cravens effect is considered and answered as: "partially." That is, the "optimal" range of wavelengths includes that discovered by Letts and Cravens, but because of the possibility of multi-photon reactions it does not uniquely single out their 680 nm as best, which would require a more detailed model (including e.g. cathode temperature) than provided by the simplified 1993 theory.	Theory	Bass, R. W. 2003 Optimal laser wavelength for resonant transmission through the coulomb barrier Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion The 1993 point-particle, 1-D semi-classical quantum-mechanical theory of resonant transparency of the Coulomb barrier [1], though admittedly crude, has some plausibility as to relevance and adequacy because it predicts quantitatively different results for lattices of protons versus deuterons embedded in host lattices of palladium versus nickel. Specifically it predicts that cold fusion is likely with Ni cathodes and electrolysis with either ordinary or heavy water, whereas it is likely only for heavy-water electrolysis with Pd cathodes. The question of whether or not this 1993 theory has any predictive power regarding the 2003 Letts-Cravens effect is considered and answered as: "partially." That is, the "optimal" range of wavelengths includes that discovered by Letts and Cravens, but because of the possibility of multi-photon reactions it does not uniquely single out their 680 nm as best, which would require a more detailed model (including e.g. cathode temperature) than provided by the simplified 1993 theory. Theory
257	Bass, R. W.	Bass, R. W., McKubre, M. C. H.	2003	Generalized cause and effect demonstration protocol	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2012-04-16	It is universally accepted, even by nonscientists, that if the measured output from a physical system is double, triple, or quadruple that obtained when the measured stimulus/input is doubled, tripled, or quadrupled then there is a "cause and effect relationship" between the input and output (e.g. total energy input versus excess energy [or nuclear ash] output in a cold fusion experiment). How does one quantify this scientifically, when random process disturbances and random measurement noises preclude perfect linearity? This question is answered under the assumption of Gaussian (or "normal") departures from ideal linearity regarding t hetwo mentioned statistical aspects. This is a generalization of the protocol propose dby Bass [1], which is more realistically flexible in several respects. An arbitrary number N >= 3 of similarly prepared samples is allowed, and neither the voltage nor the current is required to be constant. However, the previous protocol may be recovered as a special case when N = 5.	Theory	Bass, R. W., McKubre, M. C. H. 2003 Generalized cause and effect demonstration protocol Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion It is universally accepted, even by nonscientists, that if the measured output from a physical system is double, triple, or quadruple that obtained when the measured stimulus/input is doubled, tripled, or quadrupled then there is a "cause and effect relationship" between the input and output (e.g. total energy input versus excess energy [or nuclear ash] output in a cold fusion experiment). How does one quantify this scientifically, when random process disturbances and random measurement noises preclude perfect linearity? This question is answered under the assumption of Gaussian (or "normal") departures from ideal linearity regarding t hetwo mentioned statistical aspects. This is a generalization of the protocol propose dby Bass [1], which is more realistically flexible in several respects. An arbitrary number N >= 3 of similarly prepared samples is allowed, and neither the voltage nor the current is required to be constant. However, the previous protocol may be recovered as a special case when N = 5. Theory
638	Campbell, C.	Campbell, C.	2003	The Cold Fusion Phenomenon: A Hypothesis	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion			theory	Campbell, C. 2003 The Cold Fusion Phenomenon: A Hypothesis Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion theory
686	Cecil, F. E.	Cecil, F. E., Liu, H., Galovich, C. S.	2003	Energetic Charged Particles from Deuterium Metal Systems	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2009-12-10	We report on measurements made a number of years ago of energetic charged particles which were emitted from deuterium metal systems subject to non-equilibrium conditions of temperatures and electric currents. These measurements include (i) thin Titanium foils deuterated at moderately high temperatures in a deuterium atmosphere and then monitored as they were cycled from LN2 to room temperatures; (ii) charged particle detection of Ti foils exposed to a deuterium glow discharge; and (iii) observation of charged particles from Ti foils following bombardment with energetic deuterium ions.	Charged particle	Cecil, F. E., Liu, H., Galovich, C. S. 2003 Energetic Charged Particles from Deuterium Metal Systems Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion We report on measurements made a number of years ago of energetic charged particles which were emitted from deuterium metal systems subject to non-equilibrium conditions of temperatures and electric currents. These measurements include (i) thin Titanium foils deuterated at moderately high temperatures in a deuterium atmosphere and then monitored as they were cycled from LN2 to room temperatures; (ii) charged particle detection of Ti foils exposed to a deuterium glow discharge; and (iii) observation of charged particles from Ti foils following bombardment with energetic deuterium ions. Charged particle
713	Celani, F.	Celani, F., Spallone, A., Righi, E., Trenta, G., Catena, C., D'Agostaro, G., Quercia, P., Andreassi, V., Marini, P., Di Stefano, V., Nakamura, M., Mancini, A., Sona, P. G., Fontana, F., Gamberale, L., Garbelli, D., Falcioni, F., Marchesini, M., Novaro, E., Mastromatteo, U.	2003	Thermal and Isotopic Anomalies when Pd Cathodes are Electrolysed in Electrolytes Containing Th-Hg Salts Dissolved at Micromolar Concentration in C2H5OD/D2O Mixtures	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2003-11-10	Discussed in this paper is the evolution of work that started by using the M. Fleischmann and S. Pons method and ended by using thin palladium wires electrolyzed in an electrolyte consisting of slightly acidic heavy alcohol-water solution containing thorium (Th) and mercury (Hg) salts at micromolar concentrations. The resulting large and dynamic loading of the Pd wires was studied. The recent use of thorium instead of strontium resulted in thermal anomalies and detection of new elements in larger amounts. The results with Sr are qualitatively in agreement with what was found by Y. Iwamura (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) using multilayers of Pd-CaO-Pd-Sr in flowing deuterium gas. Most? results seem to be in agreement with a "multi-body resonance fusion of deuterons" model recently developed by A.Takahashi (Osaka University).	Excess heat, transmutation	Celani, F., Spallone, A., Righi, E., Trenta, G., Catena, C., D'Agostaro, G., Quercia, P., Andreassi, V., Marini, P., Di Stefano, V., Nakamura, M., Mancini, A., Sona, P. G., Fontana, F., Gamberale, L., Garbelli, D., Falcioni, F., Marchesini, M., Novaro, E., Mastromatteo, U. 2003 Thermal and Isotopic Anomalies when Pd Cathodes are Electrolysed in Electrolytes Containing Th-Hg Salts Dissolved at Micromolar Concentration in C2H5OD/D2O Mixtures Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion Discussed in this paper is the evolution of work that started by using the M. Fleischmann and S. Pons method and ended by using thin palladium wires electrolyzed in an electrolyte consisting of slightly acidic heavy alcohol-water solution containing thorium (Th) and mercury (Hg) salts at micromolar concentrations. The resulting large and dynamic loading of the Pd wires was studied. The recent use of thorium instead of strontium resulted in thermal anomalies and detection of new elements in larger amounts. The results with Sr are qualitatively in agreement with what was found by Y. Iwamura (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) using multilayers of Pd-CaO-Pd-Sr in flowing deuterium gas. Most? results seem to be in agreement with a "multi-body resonance fusion of deuterons" model recently developed by A.Takahashi (Osaka University). Excess heat, transmutation
793	Chen, S.	Chen, S., Li, X. Z.	2003	The Application Of Multiple Scattering Theory (Mst) In Calculating The Deuterium Flux Permeating The Pd Thin Film	Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion	2003-11-06	The multiple-scattering theory is applied to the de Broglie wave of deuterons inside the palladium film. The formalism for band structure calculation and the reflection and transmission calculations for finite slices is presented. The latter is based on a double-layer scheme which obtains the reflection and transmission matrix elements for the multiplayer slice from those of a single layer. With a relative simple model for the potential of palladium crystal lattice, we calculate the band structures of probability wave of deuterons propagating in the palladium, as well as the transmission coefficients through finite periodic slices. Selective resonant tunneling theory is adopted when obtaining the scattering matrix T. Our calculations consist with experimental results which can not be explained by diffusion theory.	theory	Chen, S., Li, X. Z. 2003 The Application Of Multiple Scattering Theory (Mst) In Calculating The Deuterium Flux Permeating The Pd Thin Film Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion The multiple-scattering theory is applied to the de Broglie wave of deuterons inside the palladium film. The formalism for band structure calculation and the reflection and transmission calculations for finite slices is presented. The latter is based on a double-layer scheme which obtains the reflection and transmission matrix elements for the multiplayer slice from those of a single layer. With a relative simple model for the potential of palladium crystal lattice, we calculate the band structures of probability wave of deuterons propagating in the palladium, as well as the transmission coefficients through finite periodic slices. Selective resonant tunneling theory is adopted when obtaining the scattering matrix T. Our calculations consist with experimental results which can not be explained by diffusion theory. theory