I'm having a hard time making sense of this on several levels. For a one thing, the Mosier-Boss results (including the paper you link below and previous papers, all found in a page on their site) document fast neutrons, not thermal neutrons. For another thing, fission would put the lie to their waste claims. Methinks fission is fission; you're going to get the standard double-hump distribution of daughters, all radioactive.
I suppose you could moderate and thermalize the neutrons, But after neutron capture (as opposed to fission) by U-238, a short decay chain ensues that quickly lands on Pu-239, which is long-lived and fissile. Not exactly a desirable result. Is there a real physicist in the house!? ;-) Jeff On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A company formed by some SPAWAR alumni (and others), Global Energy > Corporation claims to have a green fission technology nearly ready for > testing in smaller markets - > > GUAM POWER AUTHORITY EXPLORES NUCLEAR POWER > Next generation facilities could reduce power costs > http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2012/February/02-13-02.htm > > Virginia firm offers nuclear energy > > http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/local/46996-virginia-firm-offers-nuclear-energy.php > > (Company website) http://www.globalenergycorporation.net/ > > A possibly relevant ICCF-17 paper - > "It’s not Low Energy – But it is Nuclear" - Pamela A. Mosier-Boss > > http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Mosier-Boss-Its-Not-Low-Energy-Paper.pdf > > My interpretation is that they expect to use LENR to generate relatively > low-energy neutrons to initiate fission chains starting with U-238 and > terminating in fairly harmless wastes. To me, it seems similar to the > Thorium reactor approach. > > Their adviser list seems impressive. Any opinions? > > - Lou Pagnucco > > > > >
