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AN APPEAL FOR HELP.
The ICCF conferences have been successfully operating, as a proud tradition, for many years. The 26th ICCF conference, to be held in May in Morioka Japan, is the latest in a distinguished series stretching back 35 years. ICCF-1 was held in Salt Lake City in March 1990, attracting more than 200 researchers and journalists from all over the world. Two years later, ICCF-3 was the first meeting held in Japan, with an attendance of over 300 people. Unfortunately, recent economic and political turmoil—such as tariffs, cuts in science funding, and falling consumer confidence—have caused a loss of corporate sponsors, as well as a decrease in the number of attendees for the ICCF-26 Conference.
Because of this situation, the members of the ICCF Local Organizing Committee and the International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ISCMNS) are aware that our conference series is now facing some financial issues, due to this geo-political climate—one that is not a conducive to scientific research or bold investment. The withdrawal of research funds and university support payments are making both suppliers and consumers reluctant to part with their cash. Also, the rising cost of air travel and hotels are exacerbating these issues. All of this adds to our concern that both the ICCF conferences series and the IWAHLM conference series may soon see some undesirable declines. This geo-political climate has made it necessary for us to take action.
In order for a series to remain viable, conferences must stay profitable and be able to pass some of that profit onto the next conference in the series. ICCF conferences have been a vital nexus for the entire field—creating new network connections not only between researchers, but also network connection to the worlds of media and finance. These conferences are ‘a gift that keeps on giving’. The loss of our conference series, just as our field begins to gain traction, would be a calamity for the LENR research ecosystem, particularly for the next generation who are just now establishing their footing in the field.
We ask you to please attend the ICCF-26 conference in person, if you can. If you are unable to do this, please consider attending online. Also, if you would like to make a donation for the support of the conference, please use the link below. Every dollar counts and helps to shepherd our conference series through these unsteady economic times. Your donation will be put to the best possible use for the conference. Donors will all get their names added onto the sponsor list for the conference, as well as on a tribute page for the ISCMNS website. Also, as an added bonus and incentive, there will be a raffle for all donators, with some useful and interesting prizes and rewards! Click on the links below to find out more about that.
With grateful thanks for your support of our vital scientific work and scientific conferences.
Sincerely,
Lynn Bowen, President ISCMNS
Alan Smith, CEO ISCMNS
Please visit this link https://iscmns.org/iccf26 for more information
LENR Commercial News:
1.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/2-hyderabad-start-ups-to-test-nuclear-powered-modules-in-space/articleshow/119554391.cms
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 26: Hyderabad-based startup HYLENR Technologies, a leader in clean energy innovation, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TakeMe2Space, a pioneering space-tech company, to develop and test LENR powered compute modules in space. Ink MoU to test and experiment HYLENR’s Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) technology for space-based compute infrastructure.
2. Brilliant Light Power makes a bold challenge to the science community: Requesting Hydrino Analytical Testing Collaborations | Brilliant Light Power
“Brilliant Light is offering Hydrino in a bound state and as a free gas to laboratories worldwide for testing purposes only with the further requirement to share data. Methods and results are reported for repeatable results of five complementary spectroscopies on the hydrino compound FeOOH:H2(1/4) that also serves as an on-demand source of H2(1/4) gas upon addition of acid.”
Mills/Hagen also have a new paper out: FeOOH hydrino paper 033625
3. Brilliant Light Power Annual Shareholders Presentation (at Tm 56:00 Mills talks about LENR):
Share Holder Meeting 2025 – YouTube
4. A new company just popped up on our radar:
Building a nuclear reactor the size of a desktop computer – ISRAEL21c
5. Kilometro Rosso was in the RAI News promoting their “Prometheus Reactor”… https://www.kilometrorosso.com/partner/prometheus/ .Starts at Tm 1:00:
RAI News 24 del 2025.03.23 parla di Prometheus nella sezione di Economia – YouTube
Papers:
1.Low Energy Nuclear Synthesis in Earthquake, Volcanic Eruptions, and Genesis of Heavy Elements
1989 is the beginning of intensive research into the phenomena of cold nuclear fusion, renamed “The Low Energy Nuclear Synthesis Reactions” (LENR). Based on these results and the long-term research of earthquakes and volcanic activity, the authors of this article put forward a hypothesis about the mainly chemical nature of the energy released at earthquakes and volcanic eruptions with the participation of primordial hydrogen and helium: high mobility of hydrogen and oxidizers provide focusing and accumulation of the latent chemical energy, which is realized suddenly and instantaneously as explosions and initiate the earthquake and/or eruptions. The volcanic eruption is viewed therein as a special type of earthquake whereby the hypocenter rises to the earth’s surface. The authors proposed a new hypothesis that LENRs significant energy to earthquakes and eruptions at the synthesis of elements lighter than iron, thus creating excess energy, which is partially used for the synthesis of heavier elements. The combination of the chemical and nuclear reactions transforms these centers of geophysical activity into giant reactors where the nuclear, chemical, and thermal transformation of mantle materials and the creation of primary deposits of heavy elements such as uranium, thorium, gold, etc. So, all chemical elements heavier than iron are not detected in the solar wind. These elements discovered on our planet could be (and probably were) created on planet Earth and not imported from explosive supernovae or far-off remote stars. To the best of our knowledge, this hypothesis has not been proposed until now.
2. A. Klimov∗
Power Engineering Technical University, Moscow, Russia
A. Pashchina
Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS, Moscow, Russia
“Heterogeneous Hydrocarbon Plasma (HHP) was used in LENR experiments in the studies [1], [2] for the first time. This HHP was created by a pulsed erosive capillary plasma generator (PG). The working erosive substance PMMA (polymethyl-methacrylate, monomer-C5H8O2) was used in this PG. This work is a continuation of the previous ones [1], [2]. A calorimetric experiment with PG and distant Ni-foil cathode has been carried out in argon atmosphere(Pst~1 Bar). It was determined that HHP consists of the carbon nano-clusters and hydrogen atoms + hydrogen ions. These species are connected with dissociation of the initial PMMA. The interaction of HHP with thin Ni-foil target (width 0.1 ÷ 1 mm) has been studied in this work. HHP- jet heats, melts and evaporates this thin Ni-foil target. In a result of this interaction a small hole with diameter 1–3 mm in the Ni-foil target was burned by HHP-jet. Parameters of this hole were measured. Ni-foil weight was measured before and after the experiment also. It was
revealed that the value COP was about of 5 ÷ 6 in this experiment (where COP = QT/Qe,QT – thermal energy of heating, melting and evaporating of the Ni-foil-target, Qe-electric energy input for HHP-jet creation). New transmuted chemical elements Li, Al, Ca,. . . were recorded in the HHP by the optical spectroscopy method, the EDS-method and the MS ICP method.
In The Media:
1.Episode #10: Audiobook Ch. 1 Preview – by Brett Holverstott
1st Chapter of the new edition of Brett Holverstott’s book about the Randy Mills/Brilliant Light Power story.
“Outside town some ten miles was Cranbury, an area filled with corporate campuses in science, technology, and medicine. Situated there was Brilliant Light Power (BLP), a small, private research and development laboratory that claimed it had a new energy source that would change the world.”
2.Ruby Carat has been busy with personal matters, but still found the time to put out a new book:
3.Cold fusion – THE PHYSICS DETECTIVE
Videos Worth Watching:
Do We Need the Quark Model? – YouTube
The Hidden Crisis in Quantum Mechanics: Structure Needs Help – YouTube
ICCF25 Proceedings now available:
Vol. 39, 2025 | Published by Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
ICCF Conference Proceedings continued (from ICCF16)
Solid State Fusion:
Has begun a campaign to attract students into the field: We Need Students – Solid State Fusion Discovery
Event Reminder:
Program is now available:
Programhttps://iccf26.org/img_common/program/program.pdf
postersessionprogram.pdfhttps://iccf26.org/img_common/program/postersessionprogram.pdf
Registration deadline has been extended to May 14, 2025 (Hotel reservations through the registration site will be available until May 9)
The local organizers tell me that they are short of the projected numbers for this conference, perhaps because of the relatively remote location, exacerbated by the current socio-economic (and political) climate. There has also suffered the loss of two sponsors due to the current economic climate. They have extended the registration deadline, as above.
ISCMNS and LENR Forum are also organizing a donation link, so if you cannot go to Morioka, perhaps you could make a donation? This will be ready in a few days. Please remember, if ICCF-26 has no surplus to pass on, it puts ICCF-27 in peril, just as people are starting to take us all seriously.
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