I hope this article piques the interest of more people in the fission
reactor business...especially those in Canada.
Harry
Walter Faxon wrote:
> The Oct 21-27, 2006 edition of New Scientist has a featured story on
> speeding up radioactive decay, mostly by embedding the material in metals
> at ultra-low temperatures. ("Half-life heresy" pp. 36-39; the cover
> teaser is "Nuclear waste, yes please".) Focusing mostly on the work of
> German physicist Claus Rolfs, he in turn was inspired by other work that
> showed that fusion between deuterons in tantalum metal happened
> "unexpectedly often".
>
> This is from last week's edition but is on US newsstands now; the story is
> available online to subscribers and possibly in a few weeks to
> non-subscribers.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ym2nnp
>
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