Fusión Nuclear

The Rossi 10 kW Reactor
Scott Chubb

ndrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi held a public demonstration on January 14, 2011 of Rossi’s ECat (energy catalyzer) boiler, a nickel-hydrogen fusion reactor, atthe University of Bologna (Italy). A group of about 50 scientists from the university and the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN, the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics) were on hand toexamine the device. The experiment was organized by Dr. Giuseppe Levi and other faculty at the University of Bologna/INFN. A video of part of the demonstration, the abstract of International PatentWO/2009/125444, other related material and news items are available on the website for The Journal of Nuclear Physics (http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com). The site, created by Rossi and hiscolleagues, has published a handful of papers over the past year, but is at this time primarily a news source for the Rossi reactor. Focardi and Rossi’s paper, “A New Energy Source from Nuclear Fusion,” isalso available there. After the January 14 demonstration, Levi prepared a “Report on Heat Production During Preliminary Tests on the Rossi ‘Ni-H’ Reactor” (http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LeviGreportonhe.pdf) based on short tests he conducted on both December 16, 2010 and at the demonstration on January 14. Levi’s report includes a section by Dr. David Bianchini, “Experimental Evaluation, forRadiation Protection Purpose, of Photon and Neutron Radiation Field During the Public Presentation of the Prototype Called ‘Energy Amplifier.’” Additionally, an important report by Prof. Mauro Villa,“On the γ Radiation Measurements on the Rossi System,” is also available (http://www.lenrcanr.org/acrobat/VillaMonthegamma.pdf). At the demonstration on January 14, no measurable nuclear radiation wasdetected. Villa wrote, “The energy

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power input and output and gamma radiations were measured before, during and after the active phase of the system, as well as the hydrogen consumption....