In reply to Mark Goldes's message of Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:56:02 -0800 (PST): Hi, [snip] >Vo, > >You may all be familiar with this article: >http://www.i-sis.org.uk/LENR_Nuclear_Waste_Disposal.php
Quote:- "Importantly, some aspects of a future LENR-based nuclear waste remediation technology have already been explored in the laboratory. Specifically, in a long series of important experiments, Dr. Yasuhiro Iwamura and his colleagues at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan have clearly demonstrated the transmutation of cesium to praseodymium and strontium to molybdenum by LENR ULM neutron-catalyzed reactions [9], consistent with the Widom-Larsen theory [10]." ...actually IMO, it isn't consistent with their theory at all, because their theory would convert D into a dineutron (if I'm not mistaken), which when added to e.g. Strontium would produce primarily radioactive Sr90 (since the primary constituent of natural Strontium is Sr88). Whereas clearly what is really being added to the Sr is the equivalent of an alpha particle. This can only happen if the protons within the deuterons stay protons. Note also that absorption of a neutron followed by "rapid beta decay" (whatever that is) is the equivalent of absorption of a hydrino with IC expulsion of the shrunken electron. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <[email protected]>
