J. Dufour et al., Experimental observation of nuclear reactions in palladium and uranium - Possible explanation by hydrex mode, FUSION SC T, 40(1), 2001, pp. 91-106
Experiments with uranium are presented that show a highly exothermal reacti
on, which can only be of nuclear origin. One striking point of these result
s is that they clearly show that what is being observed is not some kind ef
fusion reaction of the deuterium present (only exceedingly small amounts of
it are present). This is a strong indication that hydrogen can trigger nuc
lear reactions that seem to involve the nuclei of the lattice (which would
yield a fission-like pattern of products). Confronted with a situation wher
e some experiments in the field yield a fusion-like pattern of products (CF
experiments) and others a fissionlike one (LENR experiments), one can reas
onably wonder whether one is not observing two aspects of the same phenomen
on. Thus, it is proposed to describe CF and LENR reactions as essentially t
he same phenomenon based on the possible existence of a still hypothetical
proton/electron resonance, which would catalyze fissionlike reactions with
a neutron sink.(1) Finally, a series of experiments is proposed to assess t
his hypothesis.