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Back when cold fusion was hot we had a speaker from Texas A&M who had been
investigating some local experiments. As I recall the talk, one of the
main points was thet there is practically no Palladium available that has
not been used in the vicinity of a nuclear reactor. Investigation of the
local Palladium supplies confirmed that all of itw was hot, we were told.
Regards,
Jack
Hmmmm.
Well, now I have survived in this field long enough to see the old lies (or caltrops) recycled. Maybe this is a good sign.
The mischievous misinformation reposted by "Jack" below was offered originally to defuse any excitement caused by various autoradiographic and low level charged particle evidence of cf. Having scrutinized A LOT of Pd (before, after and during electrolysis) in a very high sensitivity gamma detector I can assure this group that Pd as received from a variety of sources is not normally (in our case ever) radioactive. This is as expected. The mischievous part of the post is that Pd IS NOT normally found or used near reactors*. The bold, bald and false assertions by the unnamed TAMU speaker were simply intended to disconcert.
Mike