In reply to [email protected]'s message of Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:42:00 +0000: Hi,
1) Maybe get the electrons to help instead of considering them a hindrance, as Eric suggested? 2) If that isn't workable, then create a high temperature plasma, where some of the electrons are stripped off making the job easier? >IMHO strong magnetic fields varying at a given resonant frequency (like in >a laser or gaser) have a good chance of causing a metastable isomer that >fissionsgives up potential energy to kinetic energy of two or more new >particles which may be unstable themselves. > >This method of radioactive waste management is one of 7 or8 options listed in >the DOEs EIS for high level waste management at Hanford, issued in the late >1970s. It was considered impractical since there was no open (not dark) >laser/gaser technology available to produce the resonant magnetic/electric >fields of sufficient intensity to penetrate the atomic electronic structure. > >Bob Cook > > >From: Eric Walker<mailto:[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 6:35 AM >To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Vo]:Fission of heavy nuclei under assymetric electron screening? > >Hi Robin, > >On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:34 AM, ><[email protected]<mailto:[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
