I appreciate Lomax that you don't like clear cut nuclear evidence from light hydrogen experiments. Perhaps you have or can find criticism of the experiment?
I'm offended at the suggestion that I dislike "clear cut evidence" of any kind. What would be more correct would be that I'm working on what is most solidly establshed, with many confirmations, not isolated reports. There are reports of what appears to be clear cut, but unconformed. Huizenga was totally impressed with Miles, in the second edition of his book (1993), but simply expected that Miles would not be confirmed.
When there are a lot of people looking, they find all kinds of stuff, including artifacts. Science progresses by following up and confirming. Otherwise the report sits as unconfirmed, and it might sit that way forever.
(True disconfirmation reproduces the original results and then demonstrates with controlled experiment that it was artifact. This may or may not be possible.) I am looking at the paper cited.
Okay, that report by Bush and Eagleton, a conference paper, claims correlation of radiation and excess heat, but, in fact, a single coincidence does not establish correlation. Heat was measured in one experiment and then a series of possible transmutations, weakly established, were summed to create a value close to that experimental result. One cathode was monitored for radioactivity after the experiment, showing it.
Bottom line, this is not the FP Heat Effect. It is alleged LENR, but not clearly established as such. This seems to be one result that might have been worth following up on. I don't know that this was ever done.
In helium synthesis, the reaction rate to produce measurable heat is, as I recall, about 10^11 per second. Here a peak count rate is compared to less than 3 x 10^7 counts per day.
it has been a fairly common finding that electrolytic cathodes, stored with X-ray film, create a radioautograph. The count rate that will do that is not very high. Here, 245 counts per second were observed. Tritium is known to be a common product, at roughly a million times down from helium. Tritium would produce beta radiation. X-rays are reported, there are many reports.
No levels are high. And that was the point, not that there was "no radiation." A more accurate statement is that with the FP Heat Effect, significant charged particle radiation is below 20 keV, the "Hagelstein limit." In discussing the heat/helium ratio, the question would be energy leakage through radiation that leaves the cell. Low energy x-rays that would be detected in the Bush and Eagleton cathode would not leave the cell. But this is not he FP experiment, and, again, may be quite different.
With the FP experiment, the lack of an identified ash other than helium, and the lack of significant radiation that would escape the cell, and an assumption that the fuel is deuterium, leads to a prediction of a heat/helium ratio of 23.8 MeV. It's that simple. And it is testable, has already been tested and confirmed in a variety of experiments, and is being and will be confirmed (or disconfirmed, of course) with increased precision.
A ratio different from 23.8 MeV/4He would indicate the involvement of other reactions or products (neutrinos, for example, could leak energy but be very difficult to detect). If the correlation remains strong, it remains strong as "nuclear evidence."
Confirmed, this establishes *one set of conditions* that set up the conversion of deuterium to helium, which most of us would call "fusion. It is obviously unlikely to e a characteristic of hydrogen reactions, for example. It does not prove that other results were valid.