-Caveat Lector- Latest efforts to gain acceptance for new process to neutralize radioactive wastes onsite rather than ship them across country and bury them, ie, antidote to "Mobile Chernobyl" plans. From: Gary Vesperman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NRC hearing on cask safety issues Date: Thursday, December 09, 1999 9:06 AM Hello Everybody! Last night the Nuclear Regulatory Commission held a hearing here in Henderson, Nevada on safety issues involved with transporting on trucks highly radioactive waste nuclear fuel rods inside casks. The casks are extremely heavy dumb-bell shaped containers built to withstand falls, fire, collisions at 60 mph, etc. They have a layer of water all around to provide neutron shielding, stainless steel to shield against gamma rays, thick rigid steel shells, etc. Below is a copy of my testimony. A. Roy MacMillan is a good friend of mine who I met last year. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the World Bank during the early 1970's. He is actively pursuing several other innovative widely beneficial projects besides a new cask design and the truck-mounted portable nuclear fuel neutralizer that I mentioned in my testimony. I did some networking among the NRC officials and attendees from the public. I focused on promoting the theme that geologic storage of radioactive nuclear fuel has been made obsolete by the development of low-energy nuclear transmutation by Hal Fox and his associates of Trenergy, Inc., Salt Lake City. As a marketing prop, so to speak, I would show them a color printout of the flake of copper from http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp/ which used to be radioactive thorium. And if they still don't believe that transmuting radioactive fuel to non-radioactive isotopes can be done, I would tell them to go to Trenergy's lab so they can see for themselves a demonstration of transmuting radioactive thorium into non-radioactive copper, etc so that the radioactivity drops by 90% in one hour or so. More than one NRC official told me that all NRC does is regulate. For research funding, go talk to the DOE. I would then tell them that the Salt Lake City people have been talking to the DOE for at least a couple of years. Yet Trenergy still hasn't been able to secure the research funding that they deserve. I was introduced to Patricia Eng who is some kind of a chief of the NRC section on casks. She said she knows of Roy MacMillan's Containment Systems company I mentioned in my testimony. She also has for a while posted in her office a printout of the same copper flake downloaded from http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp/. She is a good example of why a better Web site on low-energy nuclear transmutation would help sell the technology. I tried to explain to one NRC official in simple terms how low-energy nuclear transmutation neutralizes radioactive materials. My explanation was essentially the paragraph below in my testimony about the difference between 9,000,000 volts versus less than 5,000 volts. He admitted I was going over his head. I didn't think of it at the time, but I could have then tried on him my analogy using ping pong balls for electrons and bowling balls for protons. I had the same difficulty with someone else involved with a private company in the cask business. My guess is if they don't understand what is a volt, they can't begin to comprehend even in simple terms the theory of low-energy nuclear transmutation. My actual testimony was much shorter and without the theatrics I wrote in the letter below. I have mixed feelings about publicly accusing the DOE and NRC of possible corruption with respect to Yucca Mountain. After talking with the NRC officials last night, while admittedly a statistically insignificant sample, I am leaning more towards just plain technical incompetence and lazy bureaucratic thinking and inertia among DOE people as to why they have ignored low-energy nuclear transmutation as a demonstrable alternative to geologic storage of waste nuclear fuel. Gary (Below is the text of my testimony that was submitted in WRITTEN form. I passed out 20 copies of my testimony.) Gary C. Vesperman 3123 Trueno Road Henderson, NV 89014-3142 (702) 435-7947 [EMAIL PROTECTED] December 8, 1999 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Spent Fuel Project Office Washington, DC 20555-0001 To whom it may concern: Please include the following comments in the record of the December 8, 1999 public meeting at the Henderson Convention Center on transportation of spent nuclear fuel safety: Roy MacMillan is the President of Containment Systems, Inc. His company has developed a new type of cask for transporting high-level radioactive waste which is much cheaper yet stronger and safer than casks currently being used. When I first met Mr. MacMillan last year, his company also had the engineering nearly completed for a portable truck-mounted spent nuclear fuel neutralizer. The spent nuclear fuel rods would be processed so that their radioactivity would be eliminated. However, the company did not have the technology for actually transmuting the radioactive waste. Since then I have brought to his attention one proven method of transmuting radioactive substances so that they would be no longer radioactive. Earlier this year I asked Mr. MacMillan when he expects to have the service for neutralizing radioactive fuel. He told me no more than five years. Since we already have a proven method of neutralizing radioactivity on site at nuclear power plants, we can immediately abandon Yucca Mountain as a radioactive waste dump. There will not be any waste nuclear fuel to transport and store. The proven method of transmuting radioactive waste is low-energy nuclear transmutation. A new design has also been developed which is believed to be at least one million times more powerful than low-energy nuclear transmutation. This is a drawing of a reactor which you can buy right now for $2,500 for demonstrating low-energy nuclear transmutation. Inside the reactor are a pair of electrodes which are positively and negatively charged. Protons require 9,000,000 volts to be accelerated to a velocity high enough to penetrate nuclei. Within this reactor, protons are embedded in high-density clusters of electrons. Protons have 1836 times the mass of electrons. 9,000,000 volts divided by 1836 is a little less than 5,000 volts. So therefore, in order to penetrate nuclei and to transmute elements, only a little less than 5,000 volts is required to accelerate protons to the same high enough velocity as 9,000,000 volts. That is the reason for the term �low-energy nuclear transmutation�. This is a photograph of a flake of non-radioactive copper that used to be radioactive thorium. Look at that copper flake. This photograph is visual proof that low-energy nuclear transmutation of radioactive waste can be done. (See http://web.gcis.net/cincygrp/.) If you still don�t believe me, you can see for yourself in Salt Lake City demonstrations of reducing radioactive thorium by 90% in an hour. The record shows so far that the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have not been paying any attention to eliminating radioactivity using low-energy nuclear transmutation. I think the DOE and the NRC have fallen short in their responsibilities to Congress and the public about the need for a Yucca Mountain repository. They know that there are alternatives to Yucca Mountain. Yet the DOE and the NRC have been adamant about not spending any money investigating low-energy nuclear transmutation. I have heard it suggested that these two agencies and their contractors just don�t want to give up on over one hundred billion dollars of profitable contracts involved in reprocessing, transporting, and geologic storage of radioactive waste. I have even heard it suggested that there must be corruption somewhere within the DOE and NRC which would explain why they have not shown any interest in cheap and safe low-energy nuclear transmutation of radioactive waste. I ask the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to stop wasting money on studying Yucca Mountain for dumping radioactive waste and such auxiliary topics as transportation safety issues. Neutralization of waste nuclear fuel on-site at nuclear power plants is a proven technology which can be demonstrated up in Salt Lake City. I also ask the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to finance and stage here in Henderson a public demonstration of neutralizing radioactive materials using low-energy nuclear transmutation. Those in the audience who want to see the demonstration, would you all please stand up? The DOE has projected the life-cycle cost of Yucca Mountain to be $150 billion. Look again at this copper flake which used to be radioactive thorium. Radioactivity can be eliminated. Do you really think it is necessary to squander $150 billion on Yucca Mountain? I want to hear from the audience a loud NO! Thank you, Gary C. 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