LENRs
Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRs) are a new area of scientific research that may lead to a new source of carbon-free nuclear energy and significant materials science technologies. Laboratory research indicates that LENRs do not produce radioactive waste or dangerous levels of radiation. Experiments have already demonstrated the production of net energy. Abundant fuel could come from the hydrogen in plain water and the metal nickel. Despite such promise, progress has been slow because of its troubled history.

ORIGIN
The research was originally and incorrectly identified as "cold fusion." Intense conflicts, confusion, and human drama took place during the field's introduction in 1989. As a result, the research fell into disrepute nearly as quickly as it generated its initial spectacular level of public interest and hope. The field and its researchers were condemned as pathological scientists and banished from mainstream science. Angry science authorities declared that the topic was "dead, and it will remain dead for a long, long time." Thanks to the persistence of a few hundred researchers worldwide, the field did not die. However, virtually all mainstream news media had abandoned the topic and did not recognize the development.

KRIVIT
A decade later, Steven B. Krivit, then a computer networking systems engineer, serendipitously picked up the trail. He had been preceded by Eugene Mallove (1947-2004), founder of Infinite Energy magazine, and author Charles Beaudette (1930-2014). Using independent, online media as his primary communication platform, and the practices of investigative journalism, Krivit founded New Energy Times to support understanding and recognition of the new science. Communications projects have since expanded to include books, public lectures, and journal articles.

SITE
Since 2000, our site has been the trusted resource for independent, accurate, and scientific information about LENRs. We are and have always been financially independent of any commercial or investment activities in the LENR field. The hierarchical links listed below will take readers to more than 700 Web pages and 2,000 PDF reference/archival documents. Links also bring viewers to Archive.org, where we have also preserved and deposited additional archival collections.

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• 1.2.1 What Is LENR Research? (LENR FAQs)
• 1.2.2 LENRs Versus "Cold Fusion" - A Crucial Distinction
• 1.2.3 More on the Distinction Between LENRs and "Cold Fusion"
• 1.2.4 The Three Paradigms of Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions
• 1.2.5 Concise Introduction to LENRs (Interview by Charles Notley, 2023)
• 1.2.6 Widom-Larsen Theory Portal
• 1.2.7 Albert Einstein Intuited LENR Neutrons
• 1.2.8 LENR Theory Index
• 1.2.9 Index of LENR Experimental Methodologies
• 1.2.10 How Michael McKubre Fabricated the "Proof of Cold Fusion"
• 1.2.11 The Hidden Bias of LENR Scientist Edmund Storms

• 1.3.1 Hacking the Atom (Vol. 1)
  Making sense of the new science of low-energy nuclear reactions (1990-2015)
• 1.3.2 Fusion Fiasco (Vol. 2)
  The definitive historical account of the "cold fusion" conflict (1989-1990)
• 1.3.3 Lost History (Vol. 3))
  The forgotten story of chemically induced nuclear transmutations (1912-1927)

• 1.4.1 Full List of Krivit's Publications and Conference Presentations
• 1.4.2 "Power Generation Through LENRs" (2017)
• 1.4.3 "Review of Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions" (Elsevier, 2013)
• 1.4.4 "Widom-Larsen Theory: Possible Explanation of LENRs," Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia (John Wiley & Sons, 2011 ) (Available on request)
• 1.4.5 Low Energy Nuclear Reactions - The Emergence of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (Oxford University Press, 2008)

• 1.5.1 This Is Not 'Cold Fusion'" by Michael Ravnitzky, United States Naval Institute Proceedings (Sept. 2018) Vol. 144/9/1,387
• 1.5.2 "It's Not Cold Fusion... But It's Something" by S.B. Krivit and Michael Ravnitzky, Scientific American (Dec. 7, 2016)
• 1.5.3 Charles Beaudette on the Place of Failed Experiments (2002)
• 1.5.4 Krivit Review of Gary Taubes' Bad Science Book

• 1.6.1 LENR-CANR (Jed Rothwell's online library of LENR papers)
• 1.6.2 RCCNT&BL (Russian Conference on Cold Nuclear Transmutation and Ball Lightning) (See Alexandre Prosvirnov's Web site)
• 1.6.3 JCFRS (Japan CF-research Society)
• 1.6.4 SFSNMC (Société Française de la Science Nucléaire dans la Matière Condensée)
• 1.6.5 LENR Forum (Online public discussion forum)
  * We do not include here commercial or investment-related organizations.

• 1.7.1 A Close Look at Russ George's D2Fusion Inc.
  "I steal from everyone. They call that research." (More on George)
• 1.7.2 Report on Innovative Energy Solutions Inc.
  Dramatic demonstration, investors fleeced
• 1.7.3 Investigation of Mitchell Swartz's Energy Claims
  Exaggerated power claims. (More on Swartz)
• 1.7.4 Michael McKubre - A LENR Hero Who Crossed the Line
  Good measurements but falsified reports to promote "cold fusion" theory
• 1.7.5 Experiment M4: Michael McKubre's Fabrication of the "Proof of Cold Fusion"
• 1.7.6 "Forty-Eight Hours in Bologna: The Failure of Rossi’s Energy Catalyzer, Caught on Video" (Summary Report)
• 1.7.7 Andrea Rossi's E-Cat "Cold Fusion" Fraud
  Depth and details about the biggest con in "cold fusion," with help from accomplices and dupes
• 1.7.8 Lucky Tweezers
  David Kidwell's brazen and bogus claims (More on Kidwell)
• 1.7.9 Eight Watts for 100 Seconds, Not 300 Watts Continuous
  Prominent nuclear engineer George Miley makes false power claim

• 1.8.1 Bockris' June 20, 1989, Worldwide Intelligence Report
• 1.8.2 Key Replications and Historical LENR Research Papers
• 1.8.3 Encyclopedia Sources
• 1.8.4 LENR Book Index
• 1.8.5 Conference Index
• 1.8.6 Conference Proceedings
• 1.8.7 LENR Companies (1989-2012)

• 2.1.1 General Electric's Verification of Fleischmann and Pons' Excess Heat
• 2.1.2 Analysis of Experiments That Allegedly Disproved "Cold Fusion"
• 2.1.3 University of Utah Press Conference
• 2.1.4 Erice (Italy) Fusion Workshop Archival Recordings
• 2.1.5 American Chemical Society (ACS Dallas)
• 2.1.6 American Physical Society (APS Baltimore)
• 2.1.7 Electrochemical Society - (ECS Los Angeles)
• 2.1.8 U.S. Congressional Hearing
• 2.1.9 MIT Scientists Accuse Pons and Fleischmann of Fraud
• 2.1.10 India Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) 1500 Report
• 2.1.11 National Science Foundation and Electric Power Research Institute (NSF/EPRI) Workshop
• 2.1.12 Early Soviet/Russian LENR Bibliographic Index

• 2.2.1 The John Bockris Archive - Gary Taubes' Fraud Accusation
• 2.2.2 Hal Fox's Fusion Information Center Archive
• 2.2.3 Douglas R.O. Morrison's "Cold Fusion" Newsletter Archive
• 2.2.4 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) LENR Archives
• 2.2.5 U.S. Navy Archives
• 2.2.6 Francesco Piantelli's Nickel-Hydrogen LENR Research
• 2.2.7 Bob Park's LENR Concession
• 2.2.8 Jerrold Footlick Recordings
• 2.2.9 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• 2.2.10 Britz "Cold Fusion" Bibliography and Related Indexes
• 2.2.11 Video Library

• 2.3.1 1989 U.S. Department of Energy ERAB "Cold Fusion" Review Panel
• 2.3.2 2004 U.S. Department of Energy LENR Review
• 2.3.3 OSTI U.S. Department of Energy "Cold Fusion" Archives

• 2.4.1.Timeline of the Early Conflict Between Jones and Fleischmann/Pons
• 2.4.1 The Steven E. Jones "Vote" Against Fleischmann and Pons

• 2.5.1 "Consensus on Cold Fusion Still Elusive" (1989)
• 2.5.2 Garwin and Lewis JASON Report to the Pentagon (1993)
• 2.5.3 New Energy Times Richard Garwin "Cold Fusion" Archive (2016)

• Lost History: Explorations in Nuclear Research, Vol. 3
  An entire period of low-energy transmutation research in the 1910s and 1920 was forgotten and lost for a century until Steven B. Krivit uncovered it.

• 3.2.1 Rutherford Nitrogen-to-Oxygen Transmutation Myth
  70-year-old myth in the history of physics overturned
• 3.2.2 Who Started the Ernest Rutherford Transmutation Myth 87 Years Ago?
  Did Rutherford really take credit for Patrick Blackett's discovery?

• 3.3.1 ITER Fusion Reactor Information Portal
• 3.3.2 Fusion Fuel Information Portal
• 3.3.3 National Ignition Facility Information Portal

• 3.4.1 Bubblegate Portal
• 3.4.2 Federal Investigation of ONR Inspector General
  ONR IG terminated and head of Purdue University nuclear engineering school asked to resign
• 3.4.3 Federal Investigations and Academic Backstabbing at Purdue University
  Witchhunt and persecution of scientist Rusi Taleyarkhan
• 3.4.4 Purdue Research Integrity Committee Fabricates Allegations
  Purdue needed a scapegoat to get the government off its back
• 3.4.5 Discrepancies in the UCLA-UIUC Failed Replication Attempt of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Sonofusion" Experiment
  Presented to the Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, 2009
• 3.4.6. Briefing on Purdue Investigation for the Office of Naval Research
  Sonofusion competitors Seth Putterman and Kenneth Suslick feed fraud insinuations to Eugenie Reich and Nature magazine
• 3.4.7 Tsoukalas and Clikeman Change Tritium Confirmation to Disconfirmation
  Scientists turn positive results into negative results in response to internal politics and corruption in Purdue University nuclear engineering school
• 3.4.8 Oak Ridge Nuclear Cavitation Science Battle
  Shapira and Saltmarsh falsify their report on the Taleyarkhan group experiment