Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent product safety certification organization that certifies product safety primarily for the insurance industry. Most insurance underwriters will not write insurance for a house that contains a heating system or any product for that matter that is not certified by UL.KitemanSA wrote:As in "UL wouldn't be involved at all" or "UN wouldn't approve it if they were involved"? Why would UL be involved? And if they were involved, why would they care if it were nuclear?Axil wrote:Energy product risk is a relative concept.
The underwriters laboratory would not approve the installation of a nuclear reactor in your basement no matter if it was a current small navel reactor, a Pu238 nuclear battery, or a Rossi reactor.
You cannot sell a commercial product in the United States, the EU or Japan without telling the UL how it works in detail and without first submitting it to safety regulatory agencies for testing and licensing.
In other words, the UL certifies that the product is safe to write a policy on your house, or whether Wall-mart can sell an electric fan and not get sued because it electrocutes a customer or causes a fire. They will have to test many commercial prototype Rossi devices, extensively, before they can make that determination.
Getting UL approval on a Rossi eCat will be a multi-year effort. I assume his "client" in the US is someone who does not require such approval. You can count those on the fingers of half a hand.
