LETTER FROM MARTIN OLIVER ON THE TRANSMUTATION OF NUCLEAR WASTE
LETTER FROM MARTIN OLIVER ON THE TRANSMUTATION OF NUCLEAR WASTE
I read about your work in issue 15 of Positive News. Would it be possible to send some information about the method of transmuting nuclear waste into non-nuclear material, and the level of interest? Would it be possible to send some information to: Richard Mills, c/o Greenpeace, GPO Box 3307, Sydney 2000, Australia? /s/ Martin Oliver.
Dear Martin Oliver and Richard Mills:
Here is the capsule information on PIT (plasma-injected transmutation): The PIT process produces miniature charge clusters of electrons which consist of about 100 billion electrons in a micron-sized doughnut-shaped cluster (a micron is one-millionth of a meter or about 25 microns for one-thousandth of an inch). These intensely dynamic charge clusters ionize many fluids and have the capability to carry or transport positive ions (about 1 ion for every 100,000 electrons). The combined charge cluster, of billions of electrons and thousands of positive ions, can be accelerated in an electric field (just as electrons are accelerated in a TV tube) to about the same velocity as though the cluster were only electrons. A 5,000 volt potential will provide a cluster velocity of about one-tenth the speed of light. The rest is classical physics! By impacting the combined charge cluster onto selected target elements, nuclear reactions occur. It is well understood that protons (ionized hydrogen atoms) moving at one-tenth the speed of light can produce nuclear reactions on a target. The process can be accomplished in low-pressure gases, at atmospheric pressures, and in certain liquids using special electrodes. The results are controlled nuclear reactions without the production of neutrons.
Classical physics, using the current models of electrons, ions, and atomic nuclei, understands the nature of nuclear reactions caused by high-velocity particle beams. The part of this discovery that is new, exciting, and enormously important, is that combined charge clusters of many electrons with the attached positive ions can be produced at low energies. We have shown several open-minded and properly-skeptical scientists a demonstration that charge clusters can be produced and that such combined charge clusters can create nuclear reactions.
The good news is that a government agency is preparing an appropriation request to study this new method of producing nuclear reactions and how the process can be adapted to the treatment of radioactive wastes. Hal Fox, Ed.
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March 8, 1999.