Originally Posted by awblain
In the unlikely event that he does find some neutrons flying around, then there might be an opportunity to reduce the mass of the batteries (and in fact the fuel tanks) very considerably.
Sadly I think the savings in massive batteries would be more than lost in the required shielding.
An acquaintance of mine is a Sandia PhD who happened to catch the job of looking into Cold Fusion back in those days. He once pointed out to me that if some of the more optimistic claims of success had been real observations, the experimenters would have been quite dead of the resulting neutron dose.