ZIPP Fusion
The ZIPP fusion process, identified by Mark Porringa, induces a wide variety of fusion reactions, resulting from the radial compression of individual diatomic and other simple molecules dissolved or suspended in a light water, carbon arc electrolysis cell. A variety of other cell configurations are envisioned.
The process appears to produce only stable isotopes, which should therefore make it capable of stabilizing a wide variety of radioactive waste materials. The theory on the process draws from condensed charge phenomena, Brown’s gas implosion, cavitation bubble collapse and sonoluminesence – all variations of the Casimir effect – which is believed to cohere the zero-point energy of quantum vacuum fluctuations. Transmutations using variations of this basic process may be applicable to a wide variety of nuclear wastes and appears capable of operating with an efficiency exceeding 100%.
A major implication of this process is that the strong force of the nucleus is understood as an ultra close range Casimir effect. Oakridge Nuclear Laboratories in the US in conjunction with several international collaborators have just (this month, in fact) announced a deuterium cold fusion process based on the essential elements of the ZIPP fusion process first reported in 1998. The process is very simple and inexpensive to develop.
RIPPLE Fission
The RIPPLE fission process is an adaptation of existing potential technology utilizing a supersonic ionized gas to aerosol a counter flow heat exchanger that envelopes the radioactive waste aerosol in a vacuum induced plasma vortex which appears to disrupt the matter stabilizing influence of the quantum vacuum fluctuations resulting in “gentle” low recoil fission reactions which produce only stable fission products, with excess neutrons being prompt converted to protons via quenched beta emissions. The process is apparently proven with conventional non-radioactive wastes and is believed applicable to the entire spectrum of radwaste without the need for waste partitioning. This process is also conjectured to operate with an over-unity efficiency.
LENTEC Processes
The Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation Electrolytic Cells of the Cincinnati group produce a variety of transmutation reactions using a variety of exotic electrolysis cell designs that generally produce condensed charge clusters composed primarily of up to 1011 electrons each. These electron charge clusters produced with the use of special electrodes can penetrate the nuclei of larger atoms in solution and transmute these atoms into stable elements.
The range of design and operating protocols and potential applications are essentially limitless provided for the waste that is dispersed in the electrolyte. The reported transmutation of thorium to stable titanium and copper by the Cincinnati Group and by the Salt Lake City group is one of the more dramatic examples of this type of treatment process. Application to other high-level liquid transuranic fissionable wastes such as surplus plutonium seems likely. The glaring absence of normal fission yield energies is perplexing but probably explicable as another form of low recoil fission reaction, similar to RIPPLE fission.
Kervran Reactions
The very compelling evidence compiled by French Nobel candidate Dr. Louis Kervran has identified a wide range of nuclear transmutations in biological systems that have not been adequately explained. Coherence of zero-point energy via Casimir effects within the Somatid particles identified by the Canadian Gaston Naessens is implicated as a possible cause. A wide variety of in vitro and in vivo reactions are believed to be possible as proven in nature and numerous experiments typically involving a reaction medium composed of a dielectric fluid such as water. Highly radiation resistant microorganisms have been found thriving in the core of nuclear reactors indicating the possibility of microorganisms being capable of transmuting some bioactive nuclear wastes in the course of the normal metabolism of such organisms.
The AmoTerra Process
The AmoTerra process involves confined explosions involving proprietary mixtures of materials that include radioactive waste. Ignition of such mixtures causes nuclear transmutations resulting in reduced radioactivity (to near-background levels) following combustion, gradually over 1 to 4 days. This technique has been confirmed by the Italian ENEA and is supported by the French CEA scientists as a serious candidate for treatment of waste stockpiles. The system, as currently designed, required waste to be inserted into a chamber.
Currently, AmoTerra Corporation, through its wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, “Total Environmental Solutions, Inc.” holds an “Approval” (licence) from the Ministry of Environment in British Columbia, Canada, to show that its process can be used to deplete low-level radioactive waste on a commercial scale. The company facility is located in Kamloops, B.C. The process has been independently monitored since 2002 by a number of distinguished scientists, including(among others) Dr. John Coleman, Senior Research Scientist, MIT (now passed ), Dr. Philiipe Duport, Director, Low-Dose Radiation, University of Ottawa (recently retired), and Dr. John Johnson, Ph.D, formerly Senior Scientist, Hanford (recently retired).
Research on what is now the AmoTerra process was originally started by Dr. John O’Malley Bockris at Texas A&M.
Higher Group Symmetry Electrodynamics
Extremely weak, non-classical, higher group symmetry electromagnetic fields were found during a 1991 experiment made by Glen Rein to alter significantly the level of radioactivity in materials, even those in the environment. The experiments suggest that higher group symmetry electrodynamics modulate the quantitative and /or qualitative properties of radioactive species. If the non-classical fields directly affect the radioactive species, it is likely that the appropriate field parameters will be discovered to neutralize radioactive emissions. In 1999, a theoretical basis for the phenomenon was developed by the Welsh physicist, M. W. Evans, with the participation of Lt. Col. (retired) Thomas E. Bearden.
The technology is extremely simple and could be applied with minimum logistics for treating massive structures, in-toto outdoors, such as the Chernobyl disaster site.
(End of Mark Porringa’s report)
Miscellaneous
http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/NuclearRemediation/Vesperman/ is Gary Vesperman’s original list of “Methods of Neutralizing or Disposing of Radioactive Waste”.
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Nuclear_Remediation was the source of some of this compilation’s radioactivity neutralization methods.
http://www.nanohealing.net/EESystem.html offers possible methods of mitigating negative health effects from Fukushima radiation.
The State of Nevada’s Agency for Nuclear Projects (see http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/) compiles at
http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/whatsnew.htm an extensive bibliography of publications, government notices, and newspaper and magazine articles that is updated daily. A Find for “Fukushima” turned up 56 articles including some scary articles such as http://sfbayview.com/2014/50-reasons-we-should-fear-the-worst-from-fukushima/.
The list of “Clean Energy Inventions” in www.padrak.com/vesperman includes “Radioactive Waste Treatment Methods”. However, most of the list is so old that it includes three methods for which more information could not be found:
$50,000 grant from the Canadian government to neutralize radioactive waste using an esoteric technology; Dr. Andrew Michrowski.
Transmutation of low-level nuclear waste into a glassy substance by running a super high voltage through it; unknown.
Dr. Ronald Gillembardo’s method of neutralizing waste. He showed it to the Czechoslovakian government which had been digging their own version of Yucca Mountain, and they stopped digging. He did testify about his method at a Yucca Mountain hearing in Las Vegas during the mid-1970’s. Perhaps the DOE still has a record of the hearing which includes details of his method. He died in 1997.
Someone has suggested that determining the nature of an atomic nucleus by bombardment with other particles is like trying to find the form of an expensive vase by shooting at it with a .22 caliber rifle!
Policy myths create bad policy
(Excerpted from Dennis Myers’ column in the March 6, 2014 Boulder City Review, Boulder City, Nevada.)
Last week, Bob Halstead, director of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, spoke before the Nye County Commission.
He briefed the commissioners on funding deficits and other problems facing the federal efforts to build a dump for high-level nuclear wastes. In the course of his presentation, Halstead reported on some of the misinformation that is floating around about Yucca Mountain in Nye County, previously the all-but-certain site for the dump.
"They create the impression a repository was ready to accept waste, and the current administration walked away from it," Halstead said. "Simply not true."
Three years ago, I reported on this policy myth after discovering that the nuclear power lobby and other supporters of Yucca were spreading the story that the dump had already been built and was ready to start taking wastes.
During a 2010 U.S. House debate, Rep. Ed Whitfield said, "As I said, we have already spent billions of dollars on Yucca Mountain. In fact, in the very near future it was getting ready to open." (Whitfield's home state of Kentucky has a privately operated urarnum enrichment fadility at Paducah that has generated 140,000 tons of nuclear waste, and the Kentucky Senate in 2011 voted to repeal the state's moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants, thus making the generation of more waste possible.)
A Newsweek reader wrote in a letter to the editor, "The site can already hold everything we have and was being doubled before all work was stopped."
At the right-wing site Free Republic there is this comment: "The reason I think that the waste belongs in Yucca Mountain is because we have already built the facility – no other reason."
It is all claptrap, of course. A lot of suitability work costing about $8 billion was done at Yucca Mountain, but not on a dump. The construction of a Yucca dump would cost about $96.7 billion, although with inflation and the passage of time, that figure is probably low now.
This kind of myth helps drive a lot of mistaken government policies.
Policy myths can even kill. Remember weapons of mass destruction? "But disaster lies in wait for those countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out," journalist I.E Stone once sind.
Dennis Myers is a Veteran and Nevada journalist.
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