Navy Commander Halts SPAWAR LENR Research
May 13th, 2012
I 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.
On or about Nov. 9, 2011, Rear Admiral Patrick Brady , commander of SPAWAR, ordered SPAWAR researchers to terminate all LENR research. The order came seven days after Fox News published a story about Andrea Rossi’s Oct. 28, 2011, demonstration of his Energy Catalyzer. New Energy Times discussed the Fox News story on Nov. 9.
Fox contributor John Brandon wrote that a SPAWAR representative attended the demonstration and measured and verified the test. Brandon also wrote that SPAWAR may have been the customer to whom Rossi sold his 1 megawatt device on Oct. 28, 2011 – the same device still sitting in Rossi’s garage in January.
According to sources who are familiar with the commander’s orders but not authorized to discuss them, Brady gave the following instructions to SPAWAR researchers:
1. Immediately cease all LENR research at SPAWAR.
2. Return any unused funds for LENR research.
3. Withdraw any pending proposals for LENR research.
4. Do not publish additional scientific papers on LENR research.
According to the sources, Brady also issued instructions to cancel one of two existing cooperative research and development agreements for LENR research between SPAWAR and JWK International Corp., a private company in Annandale, Va.
New Energy Times sent the list of instructions to James Fallin, the director of public affairs at SPAWAR San Diego, and asked for confirmation.
“In response to your recent query,� Fallin wrote, “while I won’t discuss details of our internal decision-making processes, I will confirm SPAWAR plans no further low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) research. There are other organizations within the federal government that are better aligned to continue research regarding nuclear power. We have taken initial steps to determine how a transition of low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) research might occur.�
According to one of the sources, the rationale that Brady used was that LENR work was not part of SPAWAR’s mission. According to Brady, the source said, its mission is in information dominance, and energy is not part of that mission. New Energy Times read the response from Fallin to the source today.
“It’s bullshit,� the source said.
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