In reply to Eric Walker's message of Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:35:12 -0500: Hi Eric,
I don't think there is a lot to be gained from finding an additional means of bringing about fission. We already have a quite effective way of doing that. However it could be very useful as a means of remediating nuclear waste. Perhaps it could be combined with NMR/MRI technology to distend the nucleus with centrifugal force by spinning it, and an additional external electric field gradient? >Hi Robin, > >On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 17 Sep 2017 19:10:22 -0500: >> Hi Eric, >> >> While the concept is interesting, consider that it won't deliver excess >> energy >> unless the original isotope is already radioactive. If it is, then you may >> have >> a way of shortening the half life. How are you contemplating going about >> it? >> (Plenty of radioactive substances around that many people would be only to >> happy >> to pay you to take away. ;) >> > >The hope was that if the idea had merit in the case of heavy nuclei that >decay by spontaneous fission, it might also be applicable to heavy nuclei >that are normally stable. One thought about how to trigger the process: a >strong magnetic field will shift the electron orbitals in a preferred >direction; perhaps this will in turn set up a gradient of electron density >along the preferred direction. > >Eric Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
