I read the cold fusion book first as well, but I really suggest reading the main book as it makes some stuff much clearer.
You know, who is a physicist anyway. I think that everybody who spends time thinking and understanding the physical world as we experience it, is a physicist. I see no difference between chemistry and physics and I go with Ph. M. Kanarev: "Nature laws are uniform, and the person that has divided them into physical and chemical laws has lost touch between them."
For quite some years I studied physics, but it never made so much sense to me and learning was slow (usually a bad sign as I now understand). I was in the perfect position when I discovered BSM-SG, understanding enough of the standard model to know how strange it is, but not beeing
blinded into believing everything though years and years of working deeply in the theory. There are quite some psychological effects in us humans that are more of a hindrance then a benefit :-/
When you look an nickel and palladium in the BSM-SG atlas, you see the symmetrical upper 8 arms. This is where the magic happens and the
Closed Proximity Bindings of the Palladium seems even more effective then the Electron Bindings of the Nickel. Those 4 arms have some degree of freedom, in this case only in the horizontal direction.
It is important to understand what the coulumb barrier in BSM-SG is. It is a resonance mismatch in the CL Nodes of right handed Fundamental Partices.
The filling of the proton outer shell, made of Rectengular Lattice synchronizes with its twisted part, the CL Nodes of the same right handed fundamental Particles. When 2 atoms start to get close, both atoms try to synchronize the same CL Nodes in between, causing a opposing force, the coulomb barrier. In the very close field of the proton you have also a synchronization field of left handed nodes, created by the pion- inside the shell that leaks through - thats why the electron does not get stuck to the proton.
We are seeing a isotopic change in the Ni reaction. In the BSM-SG model, the lower Argon cores are basically done, you can't change them anymore, or add new Neutrons. The electron bindings between the protons of the upper arms, cause enough gap, for a neutron to slip over.
The question is now, where does the neutron come from. The neutron is just a proton that is folded in the center (no electron there). I could imagine that the hydrogen sits with its larger round holes on top of the arms, and gets folded by the arms to a neutron, slipping onto one of the arms (this will should not emit a neutrino wave, as it is not a stressfull neutron -> proton decay). Another likely source of a neutron could be the Li7. The neutron over the single top proton gives its neutron to the Ni, releasing energy because the higher concentration of mass releases relativistic mass effect energy from the cosmic lattice (static Zero Point Energy).
It is a bit unclear from the lugano report: Did they still find Li6 in the ash, and was the quantity of Li6 in the ash maybe Li6 + Li7(-n) from the fuel ?
Also I would be very interested to know if He was in the "fuel". I think its likely that both Li donate their proton (+ neutron) and become He.
The Palladium process is different I think. The 4 arms have very close bindings between them, I think a neutron will not slip over this. What pd seems to do, is to sychronize the columb barrier between deuterium atoms, so they call slip into each other, forming a He atom.
In my book the sodium model looks right, or do you mean the 2. neutron on top ? This can be stable, only a single proton is not capable of holding 2 neutrons due the low mass.
I think it explains the distribution of Atom decay. Our fission is basically a brute force technology. You cause asymetries in the nucleus that has no chance of balancing itself again, or by simply knocking of a part. The asymetric nucleus is unstable and decays in more asymmetric fragments until something symmetric comes out. A rather stupid process getting energy out of the aether 
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