Solar Flare Tritium in a Recovered Satellite
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Solar Flare Tritium in a Recovered Satellite
E. L. Fireman, J. DeFelice, and D. Tilles
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Received 3 May 1961
Tritium and argon-37 were measured in samples of the Discoverer XVII
satellite. The tritium content was unusually high, the maximum value being
163�2 tritium decays/kg min. The ratio of tritium to argon-37 atoms was
2500�300 in an iron sample and larger than 9000 in a lead sample. The
tritium activity decreased rapidly with depth. The tritium content is too
large by a factor of more than one hundred to be explained by nuclear
interactions induced by incident protons or alpha particles. The tritium
must result from a flux of incident tritons stopped in the material.
The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.123.1935
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So called "conventional fusion" claims that fusion and nucleosynthesis
require high temperature and pressure like those found only at the center of
the Sun. Photons take from 100,000 to one million years to diffuse from the
center of the Sun out to the photosphere for escape into space. Mass
diffusion takes much longer. Tritium has a half life of ~12.4 years. The
detection of tritium in solar ejecta demonstrate that fusion and
nucleosynthesis occur in the outer shell of the Sun.
Not only were all of the "conventional fusion" crowd wrong, they are now all
unemployed. Congratulations, "conventional fusion" crowd for wasting
billions of dollars of research funds that could have been better spent.