NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS: RADWASTE PROCESS
NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS: RADWASTE PROCESS
A technical article in Infinite Energy by nuclear physicist Dr. Paul M. Brown, Vice President of Nuclear Solutions, LLC of Aurora, Colorado, shows how overlooked yet completely conventional nuclear physics can be used to drastically reduce the half-lives of prominent radioactive isotopes in nuclear waste. For example: technetium-99 (which becomes stable after 2,120,000 years - after ten half-lives) can be reduced to material that becomes stable in just 43 days; and cesium-137 (which becomes stable after 302 years) can be reduced to products that are stable within 130 days. Patents have been filed on the photo-remediation process.
Company President David Samuel told Infinite Energy that this week he and Dr. Paul Brown attended the Spectrum '98 International Conference on Decommissioning and Decontamination of Nuclear Waste in Denver, Colorado. There they met with people at high levels within the US Department of Energy. Samuel said, "Initial comments received when we presented the process were very skeptical, but within minutes of Dr. Brown's detailed explanation of the process the skeptics became enthusiasts." According to Samuel, there have been several requests for immediate demonstrations and strong indications that contracts for pilot plant operations would be initiated following the expected successful experiments. Testing has already been done at the corporate laboratory of Nuclear Solutions. Samuel says that representatives from several government-owned laboratories and facilities expressed the opinion that the process could revolutionize the nuclear industry. It would eliminate many of the present dilemmas in the handling of nuclear waste. The process could save the government and industry many billions of dollars. Another industry cited by Samuel and Dr. Brown as a large potential client for this technology is the radiopharmaceutical industry (nuclear medicine), which requires both the production and destruction of radioisotopes.
www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_6_6_4.html
Jan. 11, 1999.