The 27th International Conference
on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science
August 31 – September 4, 2026, Niagara Falls, Canada
Program
Below is the conference program for ICCF-27, August 31 – September 4, 2026, Niagara Falls, Canada, with registration opening on Sunday, August 30, 2026. All times are local (Eastern Time). The program is subject to change.
Sunday, August 30, 2026
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Registration – Registration desk in the ICCF-27 venue | |
Monday, August 31, 2026
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:45 | Registration – Registration desk in the ICCF-27 venue | |
| 8:45 – 9:15 | ICCF-27 Opening ceremony | |
| 9:15 – 10:00 | Plenary talk – Where Do LENR Occur? | David J. Nagel |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Session 1 – Chair D. Nagel | |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | Experiments Confirming Existence of Cold Nuclear Fusion Reactions | D. Alexandrov, Y. Paunov, T. Malchev, D. Gospodinova, M. Lazarova |
| 10:55 – 11:20 | Thermal Stability Enhancement via Ratio Parameter Optimization in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions | Y. Paunov, D. Alexandrov, T. Malchev, D. Gospodinova, M. Lazarova |
| 11:20 – 11:45 | Real Possibility for Design and Development of LENR Reactor | D. Alexandrov, Y. Paunov, T. Malchev, D. Gospodinova, M. Lazarova |
| 11:45 – 12:10 | An AI Integration Concept for Cold Nuclear Fusion Reactor Control | T. Malchev, M. Lazarova, Y. Paunov, D. Gospodinova, D. Alexandrov |
| 12:10 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 – 15:10 | Session 2 – Chair L. Roy | |
| 13:30 – 13:55 | Observation of Excess Heat during Hydrogen Desorption in Pd-Ni Multilayer Films | Saaya Sasaki, Tomoki Kawarada, Takuya Kitabayashi, Reika Takaba, Yoichi Takeda, Shinya Narita |
| 13:55 – 14:20 | Thermal radiation spectrum analysis for Spontaneous Heat Burst during Hydrogen Desorption from Nano-sized Metal composite Online | Takehiko Itoh, Jirohta Kasagi, Yoshinobu Shibasaki and Atsushi Tokiyasu |
| 14:20 – 14:45 | Observation of Anomalous Heat Generation with Hot Spots Using Nanostructured NiCu Composite Materials Prepared in a Wet Environment | Yasuhiro Iwamura, Takehiko Itoh, Ryo Nakajima, Masaru Tachibana, Shigeki Yamada and Ryo Suzuki |
| 14:45 – 15:10 | Evaluation of excess heat generation by measuring thermal radiation from thin metal films | Jirohta Kasagi, Yoshinobu Shibasaki and Takehiko Itoh |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 17:05 | Session 3 – Chair S. Narita | |
| 15:30 – 15:55 | A Low Operating Temperature (LOT) Thermionic Energy Converter (TEC) using ‘Active’ Hydrogen Host Material | Harper J Whitehouse, M Seth Gordon, George L Kerber, Frank E Gordon |
| 15:55 – 16:20 | Progress report on scaling up the Lattice Energy Converter (LEC) output | Frank Gordon, Harper Whitehouse, Seth Gordon, George Kerber |
| 16:20 – 16:45 | Nuclear Signatures in a Hydrogen-Loaded Ni–Pd Lattice Confinement System | Agastya Rao, Lavanya Upadhyaya, Anthony Cecchini |
| 16:45 – 17:05 | XResearch: your AI assistant for Advanced Research | Paul Wilhelm |
| 17:05 – 17:15 | Break | |
| 17:15 – 18:45 | Ramp session — Discussion: Design of novel LENR energy sources Moderator: D. Alexandrov Participants: F. Petrucci, C. Page, D. Nagel, F. Gordon, F. Tanzella, S. Narita, Y. Iwamura, F. Celani, J. Kasagi, J.P. Biberian |
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| 19:00 – 22:00 | Welcoming reception – ICCF-27 venue | |
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 10:10 | Session 4 – Chair F. Gordon | |
| 8:30 – 8:55 | Bio Transmutation LENR Experiments: Review and Prospects | Amogha Gummadivalli and David J. Nagel |
| 8:55 – 9:20 | D+D fusion at thermal energy | Aleksandra Cvetinović, Matej Lipoglavšek |
| 9:20 – 9:45 | High Temperature Lattice Energy Converter Results Observed with Solid Metals | Jean-Paul Biberian |
| 9:45 – 10:10 | Dynamic Closed-Loop Calorimetry for Evaluation of Temperature-Dependent Thermal Performance in Hydrogen-Loaded Ni-Pd Systems | Agastya Rao, Shashank Siddhartha, Siddhartha Durairajan |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Session 5 – Chair A. Cvetinović | |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | Investigation of electron screening effect in metallic alloys for Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions | N. Targosz-Sleczka, K. Czerski, S. Thulichery, Gokul Das H., R. Dubey, M. Valat |
| 10:55 – 11:20 | Chemical Energies during the Activation of Ni-Cu Hydrotalcites and comparison with LENR energies Online | Jacques Ruer, Christophe Le Roux, Jean-Paul Bibérian, Robert Michel, Mathieu Valat, Arnaud Kodeck |
| 11:20 – 11:45 | Observation of Heat Bursts during Electrolysis of Palladium in Heavy Water | Mathieu Valat, Konrad Czerski, Mateusz Kaczmarski, Rakesh Dubey, Gokul Das Haridas, Natalia Targosz-Ślęczka, Sreelakshmi Thulichery, Agata Kowalska |
| 11:45 – 12:10 | Beta-like tracks in a cloud chamber from nickel cathodes after electrolysis | Shyam Sunder Lakesar, Raj Ganesh S. Pala, KP Rajeev |
| 12:10 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 onward | ICCF-27 conference trip to the Falls, Niagara Falls | |
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 10:10 | Session 6 – Chair Jean-Paul Bibérian | |
| 8:30 – 8:55 | Physical basis and possible methods for LENR realization and associated hydrogen gas production in ordinary water | Vladimir Vysotskii, Mykhaylo Vysotskyy |
| 8:55 – 9:20 | Electrodynamic mechanism of direct energy transfer from fast daughter LENR fusion isotopes to electric current in the E-Cat system | Vladimir Vysotskii, Mykhaylo Vysotskyy |
| 9:20 – 9:45 | Multi-State Fusion: Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Combined with Lattice Confinement Fusion to Enhance Neutron Production Rates | Theresa L. Benyo, Mahmoud Bakr, Thomas Wallace-Smith |
| 9:45 – 10:10 | Anomalous heat outputs generated from Cu-Ni-Zr composite nano powder due to focusing collision of super-multi-jets of high-pressure hydrogen Online | Yosuke Suzuki, Ken Naitoh, Takuma Kado, Yuta Suzuki, Shotaro Baba, Masaharu Uchiumi, Daisuke Nakata |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Session 7 – Chair F. Celani | |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | From Anomaly Reports to Parameter Maps: Experimental Methods for Studying Nuclear Reactions in Metal-Hydrogen Materials | Matt DeCapua, Florian Metzler, Jonah F. Messinger, Matt K. Lilley, Nicola Galvanetto, Peter L. Hagelstein, Yet-Ming Chiang |
| 10:55 – 11:20 | Electrochemical insertion of hydrogen and deuterium into condensed metal phases | Faisal M. Alamgir, Marc Fleury |
| 11:20 – 11:45 | Similarities Between Fission and Solid-State Fusion Reactors | N. L. Bowen and Douglas Pinnow |
| 11:45 – 12:10 | A Comprehensive Explanation of the Cold Fusion Mechanism Online | Edmund Storms |
| 12:10 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 – 15:35 | Session 8 – Chair V. Vysotskii | |
| 13:30 – 13:55 | Dual-Laser THz Stimulation of Pd Ribbons in D2 | Francis Tanzella |
| 13:55 – 14:20 | Progress of New Hydrogen Fusion Energy | Akito Takahashi, Joji Hachisuka*, Fumio Shimizu, Mitsumasa Horii, Kenji Shimoda, Kazutoyo Yamauchi |
| 14:20 – 14:45 | Recent Progress in Increasing Anomalous Heat Effects via Dual-Mode Electrical Excitation of Modified Constantan-Type Wires in High-Temperature Gas Environments | Francesco Celani, C. Lorenzetti, G. Vassallo, E. Purchi, M. Nakamura, S. Cupellini, P. Cerreoni, U. Mastromatteo |
| 14:45 – 15:10 | Thermal Spike Model of DD Fusion in Ion Tracks Online | K. Czerski, S. Thulichery, G. Das Haridas, R. Dubey, N. Targosz-Sleczka, A. Kowalska, M. Valat |
| 15:10 – 15:35 | A Controlled Study of CR-39 Response Under Plasma and Thermal Exposure Conditions Relevant to Fusion Diagnostics | Z. Li, M. Salazar, N. Liu, B. Wrixon, N. Abdalla |
| 15:35 – 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | ISCMNS Annual Meeting | |
| 16:30 onward | ICCF-27 poster session | |
Thursday, September 3, 2026
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 10:10 | Session 9 – Chair F. Tanzella | |
| 8:30 – 8:55 | Re-evaluating Nuclear Binding Energy and Mass Defect: A Proton-Electron Composite Model Approach | J.E. Kaal, A. Otte, J.G. Emming, J.A. Soerensen |
| 8:55 – 9:20 | A Geometry-Locked Mesoscale Environment for CMNS: Derived Beltrami Beat Laws, Channel-Selective Coherence, and a Modular Kernel-Mapping Interface | Nathaniel Hanks |
| 9:20 – 9:45 | LENR’s main puzzle: nuclear interactions at atomic distances Online | Vladislav Zhigalov |
| 9:45 – 10:10 | Proton-Metal Energy Sources Based on Condensed Matter in Nuclear Science Online | Ivan Strilets, Richard Clarke |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Session 10 – Chair N. L. Bowen | |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | Empirical Signatures of Coherent Charge Clusters in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science | Giorgio Vassallo, Marc Fleury |
| 10:55 – 11:20 | Ni/H Co-deposition with Subsequent Detection of Spontaneous Voltage and High Energy Charged Particles Online | Kang Zhou, Wenhui Li, Junli Hou, Wuyun Xiao, Wushou Zhang, Dahai Liu, Yanxia Liang, Linghui Hou |
| 11:20 – 11:45 | Neutron Detector Calibration Experiment Online | Hang Zhang, Kang Zhou |
| 11:45 – 12:10 | Gamow-factor is replaced by Boltzmann-factor due to resonance in LENR Online | Xingzhong Li, Changlin Liang, Shuxin Zheng, Guisong Huang, Bin Liu, Si Chen, Jian Tian |
| 12:10 – 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 – 15:10 | Session 11 – Chair Natalia Targosz-Ślęczka | |
| 13:30 – 13:55 | LENR Archiving Progress Update | Thomas W. Grimshaw |
| 13:55 – 14:20 | Cold Fusion Suppression Story: From National Risk to New Opportunity Hybrid (online + “in person”) | Paul Werbos, Marc Fleury |
| 14:20 – 14:45 | New movie edit discusses the early days of breakthrough science Online | Ruby Carat |
| 14:45 – 15:10 | The role of work function values in LENR research | Robert Woudenberg |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 17:10 | Session 12 – Chair Y. Paunov | |
| 15:30 – 15:55 | An Electromagnetic Model of the Electron | Carlos A. M. dos Santos, Marc J. J. Fleury |
| 15:55 – 16:20 | A Precipitation/Reduction process for making High Entropy Alloys suitable for LENR purposes | Steve Baksa |
| 16:20 – 16:45 | Study of LENR Scaling Law on a PVR reactor Online | Klimov A. I. |
| 16:45 – 17:10 | Compensation of Coulomb Interaction in Nuclear Reactions. The Mass Defect. Online | Boldyreva Liudmila Borisovna |
| 17:10 – 17:35 | Presentation of the Anthropocene Institute | Participants of the Anthropocene Institute |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | ICCF-27 conference banquet – ICCF-27 venue | |
Friday, September 4, 2026
| Time | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 10:35 | Session 13 – Chair T. Malchev | |
| 8:30 – 8:55 | Mass production and applications of LENR product – excited 17O water | Bin-Juine Huang, Mou-Yung Liao, Yu-Hsiang Pan, Po-Hsien Wu, Xin-Yuan Wu, Jong-Fu Yeh, Ming-Li Tso, Ying-Hung Liu, Yu-Yuan Hsieh, TR Tseng, Fang-Wei Kang, Tan-Feng Tsai, Kuan-Che Lan, Yi-Tung Chen, Hao-Wei Wang, Robert William Greenyer |
| 8:55 – 9:20 | Commercialization of Aureon Th232 Reactor | Montgomery Childs, Michael Clarage, Jano Onderco, Jason Lickver, Paul Anderson |
| 9:20 – 9:45 | Convergent Evidence for a Superconducting, Magnetically-Charged Virial State in Coherent Energy Transformation Systems | Robert W. Greenyer |
| 9:45 – 10:10 | Laser-Induced Nuclear Fragmentation in Pd–D2: A Neutron-Mediated Mechanism Online | Linghui Hou, Wuyun Xiao, Wu-Shou Zhang, Dahai Liu, Chongwei Li, Hanhua Cui, Wei Zhao, Yanxia Liang |
| 10:10 – 10:35 | A pre-thermal mechanical energy channel in condensed matter nuclear reactions: Sub-picosecond pressure pulse dynamics as a unified framework for CMNS anomalies Online | Joseph George |
| 10:35 – 10:55 | Coffee break | |
| 10:55 onward | Session final – Chair D. Alexandrov | |
| Welcoming Information about ICCF-28 | ||
| Closing remarks about ICCF-27 | ||