[algore]

I understand, but there are also unknown chemical pathways.

Palladium is an extremely catalytic metal especially when hydrogen is involved

[Kevmo]

How do you know there are unknown chemical pathways? That is a bold statement that the pre-eminent 100 or so electrochemists of Pons & Fleishmann’s day were reluctant to put forward.

If it IS a bunch of new chemistry then it makes GIGANTIC sense to look into this branch and harness that chemistry rather than having treated the whole field as pariah for 3 decades.

[Wonder Warthog]

"The laboratory is equipped with instrumentation suitable for the detection of neutron and gamma emissions with a He3 detector and a multi-channel detector with a 3-inch NaI crystal. All the experiments carried out have been monitored with these instruments and in many cases it has been possible to detect neutron emissions attributable to nuclear events inside the reactor. Some of these anomalous events were short-lived, others were prolonged for several minutes."

"Unknown chemical reactions" don't result in gamma and neutron emissions.