Data from VCS(5RT) was presented in the Nature - Scientific Reports paper from four separate experimental tubes (6, 7, 8 and 10 in Table 1). Excess thermal coefficient of performance was determined to be between 1.51 and 1.61 for these experiments. On December 29th, 2023, I was given some scale from the VCS(5RT) reactor, acquired on 9th August 2021, to examine. Here was the handover:
When I returned, I did a quick test using the RadiaScan-701 Geiger-Muller pancake based Alpha/Beta/Gamma detector and the RadiaCode-101 scintillator. They revealed no meaningful ionising radiation.
A spectrum was then accumulated using the RadiaCode-101 for over 40.5 days from mid January to end February 2024, using the following arrangement, where some of the sample was held above the scintillator crystal in a sample pot and some some below, in the originally provided bag.
This split sample was produced during a short experiment to see if the scale contained any magnetic particles.
Obviously there are magnetic particles that will be the subject of further study. So what did the data show?
From the above, we can see no meaningful difference between the sample (orange filled area) and the background (green line). There is a little wobble at the high energy which is an averaging artefact due to the background sample time being nearly 6 times shorter than the VCS(5RT) scale sample acquisition time.
You can get the raw data xml for the 7+ day background and 40.5+ day sample acquisition here.
Implications
This lack of ionising radiation in a sample of scale from a working LENR reactor is encouraging in that, for de-ionised water alone at least, it suggests that excess energy can be produced without the formation of long term radioactive waste.
How does this scale from VCS(5RT) compare to a long real term active sample?
For comparison, here is realtime examination of black sand from Kerala, India, where there is very clear detections of both alpha and gamma radiation, near instantly, using the same devices employed above.
And a less than one day dose and sample
and sample spectrum from the sand aquired over less than 22 hours. One can see that there are clear gamma photons from the Thorium-232 decay chain.
Further work
The magnetic particles and other components of the VCS(5RT) scale will be examined under SEM with EDS in the coming weeks.
Promising for tsg
Thanks for the detailed technicalities regarding sample results. As Joe Layman, I let it ride over my mind, knowing MFMP "shows the work, " as a rule. I'm also very much learning from the Zoom dialogues, as precursor to any upcoming O-Day BOOMS. Cheers.