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Execut ive Sum mary of visit t o DefkalionHeadquart ers, At hens Greece

March 2nd

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March 7t h, 2012

Michael A. NelsonER22 NASA-MSFC

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Sum m ary of Act ivit ies

Day 1 March 2 nd Friday Met with Alex Xanthoulis andassociates and discussed lans for the da s ahead over

coffee at Alexs favorite coffee houseDay 2 March 3 rd Saturday Met with John Hadjichristos

confidential drawings, details about R&D and internals of

the reactionay arc un ay pen e ay w ex an

his wife at his home. Also visited Acropolis museum.Day 4 March 5 th Monday Met with John Hadjichristosto go over data from a typical run of a single reactorDay 5 March 6 th Tuesday Met one more time with

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Sim ilari t ies Betw een Andrea Rossi

Technolo and Def kalion

1) Use of micron sized nickel powder and pressurizedh dro en as to create a nuclear reaction

2) Gamma radiation below 300 Kev is generated from thereaction

se o ea s requ re o n a e e nuc ear reac on4) Use of electrical signal to separate H2 into H (Rossi never

publicly claimed this)5) Use of the catalyst Potassium as well as other unknown

ingredients is required.

proprietary method7) Transmutations of Iron, Zinc, and Copper have been seen

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Dif ferences Betw een Andrea Rossi

Technolo and Def kalion

1) Pressure of Hydrogen is only 1 to 5 bars for DK versus 24bars for Rossi. It is now known that Rossi allowed leakin

hydrogen to escape into water surrounding chamber.2) Triggering for Rossi was by thermal and now we

.with frequency input.

3) Rossi continued to input heat after reaction starts. DK requ res no npu o ea a er s ar o reac on.

4) Rossi chamber was made of copper surrounded by water.DK chamber is made of 316 Stainless Steel with flowchannels surrounding in chamber walls.

5) Rossi had a slow shut down. DK shuts down instantly by

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Technolo and Def kalion6) Rossi used water to cool his reactor. DK uses a thermal fluid

with hi h boilin oint.

7) Rossi claimed to run at 100 degrees C. DK can only run as lowas 185 degrees C.

oss c a me a e ea a sor e e gamma ra a on omake the heat. DK says gamma radiation is thermalized intoIR photons possibly by W-L theory.

9) Rossi shielded his reactors with lead and boric acid. DK doesnot seem to use any shielding at all.

10 Rossi claimed to increase the isoto ic ratio of NI62 and NI64. DK does not.

11) Rossi claimed that only the NI62 and NI64 participates in the

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Technolo and Def kalion12) Rossi never seemed to get his temperature much above

100 C. Actuall we never knew interior tem cause he

had no temperature sensor there) DK can sustain at 450 Cand have gone to 650 C as well as melting point of nickel.

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Technical Sum m ary of t he React ion

as Provided b John Had ichr ist os1) DK chose to focus on what is required to trigger thereaction as o osed to coefficient of erformance of the

reaction after it has been started. This allows for thereaction to be sustained at a range of temperatures from

2) The Nickel powder must first be heated before the

reaction can be initiated. This causes the various isotopes

Nickel at a starting temperature of 500 degrees C. Addition additives are required to aid the reaction.

3) The Hydrogen must then be separated from diatomicto monatomic Hydrogen. This is done electrically. This isan endothermic process that can be monitored by

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temperature in a feedback control loop.

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Technical Sum m ary of t he React ion

as Provided b John Had ichr ist os4) The triggering of the reaction is a 3 stage process:

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Stage 2 - Polarize the H atom by elongating the orbit of the single electron allowing columbic barrier insertion viav r ua neu ron pa caus ng gamma ra a onStage 3 Finish out absorption and transformation of thegamma radiation created in stage 2 into heat in stage 3by the steps as described by Widom Larsen theory.5) Once the reaction has been initiated, the heatingelement is no lon er needed. As lon as the h dro en does not leak out and its pressure is maintained thereaction can be sustained for months. Argon may be used


pressures.

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Notes on Data fr om Typical Run

Provided b John Had ichr istos

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Provided b John Had ichr istos The green trace in the graph above is the reference

chamber with no Nickel Powder resent. The red trace is

the outside temperature of the active chamber and theblue trace is the interior temperature of the active

You can see in the graph that at A on the chart when the

heating element is turned off in the reference chamber,. From A to B, the temperature of the active chamber

continues to rise prior to initiation of triggering. This is

explained as a chemical reaction occurring between the 3components added to the Nickel Powder to enhance thereaction 1 of which is Potassium Carbonate.



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Provided b John Had ichr istos From B to C the temperature drops after triggering is

initiated. This was ex lained as bein caused b the

endothermic process of H2 being transformed into H.This V is always seen when starting with diatomic H. A

after the temperature bottoms out and goes back up at C.

Triggering is done at a proprietary frequency to be most. After H2 has been converted to H, then the temperature is

monitored and triggering is initiated periodically to

. Notice at D there are temperature spikes. These

appeared without triggering and are something that is not


desired.

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Provided b John Had ichr istos From B to C is where stage 1, 2, and 3 of the reaction begin

to occur and is where the most amma radiation is seen.

Gamma radiation from subsequent triggering is less after allof the H2 has been converted to H. ages , , an occur so rap y as o appear o e a

single event but are believed to be separate events

occurring in sequence. John Hadjichristos explained thate amoun o me e e ec ron o a po ar ze a om s

close enough to the nucleus to appear to be a virtualneutron (stage 2) is 1 x 10 --1717 seconds. John believes

gamma radiation is not seen as the reaction stabilizesbecause the gamma radiation produced in stage 2 iscompletely balanced by its absorption in stage 3. The final


product is photons in the IR region from stage 3.

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My I m pressions of Defkalion

Alex Xanthoulis was a very gracious host to both Tom andm self invitin us into his home while we were there.

John Hadjichristos answered all of my questions exceptthose that they felt were key proprietary information that.

I was surprised at the amount of detail they were willing

to give me. While I did not sign an NDA I did make aver a agreemen o no vu ge w a a seen or earand I also explained that I was required by federal law tohold their information as proprietary even without an

NDA. Even though I did not see a demonstration of this

technolo I do feel that the have en ineered this


beyond anything Rossi showed us or Piantelli.

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My I m pressions of Defkalion

Staff members of Defkalion that I spoke with do nota ear to be fabricatin information for a show. What

they talked to me about and the answers they gave me tomy questions seemed to be based on experience that they

aspects of this technology.

What Rossi gave them was an assurance that this reaction.their own approach to triggering and their ownrefinements to sustaining and controlling the reaction.

. I do feel this deserves further investigation to allow them

to demonstrate that they are getting energy out in excess


of what can be produced by chemical means.

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