I alway know that Tom Clarke was wrong about Lugano because the core of that reactor melted.
The core of the Lugano reactor never melted.
Have you red the report or not ? I think not.
This is exactly the reason why we should stop discussing this report. It screws up everybody's (me included) mind, because most details in the Lugano report present a new uncertainty, we can't cope with. Just to add a few more: Wrong calculation of resistance/wattage for the wires, extensive heat transport over outgoing copper wires into the rods. Picking some particle out of the ash and doing MS etc..
1) Joule heating power. When we (oh sorry, I'm not alone) analyzed the report we notice that. In particular a factor Sqrt(3)=1.732 and the cos(phy)<1 are missing . The two errors partially compensate each other but we think that rhe team under estimated slightly the real result. This should mean that they under estimated also the COP by a few %. Not really a problem
2) Heat transport. The wires coming out from the reactor were not made by copper but with same alloy of the resistors.
3) Picking some particle. There was severe restrictions by Rossi and IH on the test. The samples were collected by the team anyway so what the problem ?