About the neutron measurements with the health dosimeter, I wrote: Fleischmann and Pons ... carried out procedures of their own devising to > look for evidence completely outside of their field ... >
This was inaccurate. For the neutron measurements, they used two approaches. First they used an NaI scintillation detector to look for the p(n,ɣ)d reaction. This is the gamma spectrum that Petrasso and the others at MIT called out as being fudgy. They also used a Harwell Neutron Dose Equivalent Rate Monitor, on loan from a colleague. This is the health dosimeter. The colleague was probably R.J. Hoffmann, with the Department of Radiological Health at the University of Utah (not to be confused with Nathan Hoffmann). Health dosimeters are relatively inaccurate and are no good for trying to measure very low neutron fluxes. Hofmann might have been the one to have carried out the actual measurements and analysis (I'm not sure). For the low fluxes they thought they were seeing, they would have benefited from much better instrumentation. Eric
