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In 1961 newly appointed physicist Otto Reifenschweiller infused 15 nanometer titanium particles
with tritium and found a 40% reduction in radioactivity by cycling the material above 140oC(1).
His mentor advised him that this result was heretical and advised burying the result in order to
have a viable career. Indeed, he buried the result until after his retirement in 1998 as Director of
the Laboratory at Philips Eindhoven ND, perhaps the premiere research laboratory in Europe.

In 1995 VETC personnel identified a new class of vibrational properties in a narrow size regime
between 3 - 15 nanometers(2). All materials processed in this very narrow size regime have
unusually large vibrational modes. The modes are so unusual that they catalyze a wide range of
new energy pathways.

In 2008 Yashiaki Arata, Japan's most decorated scientist, made a major announcement about
energy release from nanopowders infused with hydrogen(3). Arata and Reifenschweiller both used
metal nanopowders below 15 nanometers and both observed a surprise in output.
Reifenschweiler saw a reduction in radiative output. Arata saw energy output without any of the
anticipated radiation. Clearly the chaotic movement of the dissolved hydrogen isotopes was
profoundly affected.

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)(4) agreed to a replication effort of the Arata
experiment that began in July 2009. The Arata reports of continuous thermal energy output with
no electrical energy input were achieved with full reproducibility. Arata used nanoscale nickel-
palladium islands encased in a matrix of zirconium oxide and infused with hydrogen gas.

On January 15, 2011 Sergio Focardi and Andreas Rossi(5) demonstrated commercial scale, 12
kilowatt power output from nanomaterials in fused with hydrogen similar to the EPRI study.
They used nickel nanopowders with an undisclosed promoter element to enhance the loading of
hydrogen to ever higher concentrations. Romanowski(6) has suggested that copper is the promoter
element best suited for dense hydrogen loading.

These high loading conditions are believed to favor a new form of hyper-dense hydrogen at the
interface between the metal islands and the dielectric ZrO2 matrix(7). The hydrogen atoms
undergoing energy localized vibrations can interact with the host nickel lattice nuclei. This is the
most direct physical process for chemical conditions to impact nuclear reaction rates.

References

1. O. Reifenschweiler, Reduced Radioactivity of Tritium in Small Titanium Particles, Phys Lett

A. 184 (1994) p. 149-153

2. Fermi, Pasta and Ulam’s famous 1953 simulation identified anharmonic modes that are
present in all materials processed between 3-15nm. See Ulam, Memoirs of a mathematician
3. Arata, Y., Y. Zhang, and X. Wang. Production of Helium and Energy in the "Solid Fusion"
(PowerPoint slides). in 15th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science.
2009. Rome, Italy: ENEA. This can be found at: http://www.lenr-canr.org/LibFrame1.html

4. Electric Power Research Institute, Menlo Park CA, Contract EP-P32769, monitor, Dan Rastler

5. Focardi, S. and A. Rossi, A new energy source from nuclear fusion. www.journal-of-nuclear-
physics.com, 2010 on line. Also See world patent disclosure WO 2009/125444 A1

6. S. Romanowski et al, Density Functional Calculations of the Hydrogen Absorption on

Transition Metals and their Alloys, Langmuir 1999, 15, 6773-6780

7. S. Yamaura et al, Hydrogen Absorption on Nanoscale Pd Particles in ZrO2 Matrix Prepared

from Zr-Pd amorphous Alloy, J. Mater, Res., vol. 17, no. 6, June 2002 P. 1329