RCCNT&BL-13
Summary

by Yu. N. Bazhutov

The 13th Russian Conference on Cold Transmutation of Nuclei of Chemical Elements and Ball Lightning was held in the city of Sochi (at the “Olimpyiski-Dagomys” Hotel, Dagomys settlement) during September 11 through September 18, 2005.

The Conference was arranged by the RCCNT&BL-13 Organizing Committee, and Interdisciplinary Committee on Cold Fusion in cooperation with the Russian Committee on the Problems of Ball Lightning Russian Academy of Sciences and held under the auspices of the Russian Physical Society, Nuclear Society of Russia, Russian Mendeleev Chemical Society, Moscow Lomonosov State University and Russian Peoples Friendship University.

Edition of the Program and Abstracts of the RCCNT&BL-13, the Proceedings of the previous RCCNT&BL-12 and also partial financial support of several participants of the RCCNT&BL-13 were provided by sponsorship of the Scientific and Manufacturing Association “Attractor”, State Center of Information Technologies and “Kuban Broiler” Co., Ltd.

Totally 40 scientists and specialists took part in the Conference including 36 persons from Russian Federation and 4 representatives from Great Britain, Italy and Portugal. Russia was represented by scientists from Moscow (19), Podolsk (2), Troitsk (4), Zhukovski (1), Puschino (1), Moscow Region, Rostov-onDon (2), Gatchina (1), Leningrad Region, Uljanovsk (10, Krasnodar (1), Ryazan (1), Vladimir (1), Sochi (1) and Armavir (1).

33 reports and two information were presented and considered at the Conference, including 14 reports based upon the results of experimental investigations, 17 reports about theoretical works and 4 Reviews. 21 of those presentations (10 experimental and 10 theoretical and 1 review) were dedicated to the problems of Cold Fusion phenomenon and 12 presentations (4 experimental and 7 theoretical and one review) were dedicated to the problems of Ball Lightning. Though sometimes such division turned out to be definitely conditional since the subject of those reports related to both problems simultaneously. Two presentations were dedicated to the problems of managing and funding the investigations in that fields.

Among all those reports dedicated to Cold Fusion three presentations evidenced regular registration of high thermal neutron fluxes (10 4 – 10 6 n/s) correlated with generation of Tritium (Bazhutov), while the verification experiment exhibited no any neutrons irradiated. Moreover, the factor of neutron yield suppression relative to generation of Tritium (5-6 orders of magnitude) turned out to be typical for cold fusion phenomenon. Five presentations reported about transmutation of nuclei (Karabut, Savvatimova) and about registration of “strange” nuclear treks (Savvatimova, Rodionov), X-radiation and gamma-radiation (Karabut, Romodanov). It was admitted that the nature of the “strange” treks might probably disclose the mechanism of Cold Nuclear Transmutation. One author offered to improve the method of experimentation with electric blasts of metal wires (Samsonenko). The reports presented by Grishin, Savvatimova and Sharkov were dedicated to investigations of various structural changes in solid and liquid substances. Within the frames of the problem of handling radioactive waste an original method of final solution of the problem of remediation of radioactive waste was presented by Goryachev based on the results of theoretical and experimental research of elimination of radioactivity under the influence of specially structured electromagnetic radiation.

In the reports presented on the problems of Cold nuclear Fusion implementation of different methods of initiating the processes of Cold Fusion was shown which is typical for Russian investigations. Bazhutov implemented electrolysis with gas discharge on the anode. Grishin used cathode-anode electrical discharge. Sharkov implemented activation of water. Karabut, Romodanov and Savvatimova worked with glow discharge. Samsonenko – electrical blast of metal wires and others.

In the experimental works dedicated to the problem of Ball Lightning there were presented 4 reports with evidence that the authors managed to generate long living (up to 1 sec) lighting objects in the experiments with super high frequency discharge (Klimov) and in 2 reports - using gas dynamic processes (Shabanov, Furov).

In 17 theoretical reports relating both to Cold Nuclear Fusion and Ball Lightning a wide variety of original simulation model was presented with a view to further experimentation based on those models. Within the frames of some of those models new structures of substances were proposed based on strong theoretical understanding (Bazhutov, Rodionov, Bychkov, Vlasov, Kholodov, Scchedrin, Scherbak and others).

The reviews presented relating to the problems of Ball Lightning turned out to be very interesting and informative (Bychkov, Stakhanova), as well as the presentation by Bill Collis about the mission and role of the international Society of Scientists on the problems of Cold Nuclear Fusion (ISCMNS) and about participation of Russian and foreign scientists in that activities.

In the conclusion all the participants of the Conference unanimously expressed their opinion about the reasonability to continue investigations of the problems of cold fusion and ball lightning and supported the proposal of the Organizing Committee to hold next 14 th Russian Conference on the Problems of Cold Transmutation of Nuclei of Chemical Elements and ball lightning (RCCTN&BL-14) in September 2006.

Chair Yu.N.Bazhutov

Deputy chair V.L.Bychkov

Scientific secretary I.V.Goryachev