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Counter
point on Transmuting nuclear waste.
Transmuting nuclear waste is an old idea looked at decades ago, and
then discarded by the scientific communities..
The reason is was simple. Waste is a soup of thousands of unstable nuclei.
EACH one would have to have a pure beam of particles hitting it in
order to induce
a transition to a lower state. Thus, you would have to
a) chemically process all the waste, tediously separating out thousands
of
dangerous chemicals
b) hit each one with a very fine-tuned energy of radiation in order
to induce
a transition.
As you can see, the problem is staggering. It is prohibitively expensive,
and probably won't even work even if you spent billions and billions
of dollars.
Although in today's new fast growth in science and the Internet, a
new science might turn the old ways in to new possibilities.
Anonymous.
Rebuttal to counter point request.
Dear GDR,
I hope you will add my 'rebuttal' below to the GDR web page. Dr. Roy
suffered much for the Roy Process and it is a terrible disservice to him and the
world who desperately need
the Roy Process, to let an 'anonymous' so-called scientist {dismiss) the Roy
Process which they have little knowledge of. Dr. Roy told me there should be a
cost analysis done comparing the Roy Process & burying nuclear waste for the
necessary 480.000 years, 20 half-lives of Pu 239.
Regards Dennis F. Nester
Rebuttal to: Counter Point on Transmuting Nuclear Waste by {Anonymous}
I knew Dr. Roy for ten years, during which time I typed up the first
manuscript of his yet unpublished autobiography. Dr. Roy was a world leading
nuclear physicist, first to discover fission particles, author of physics
books used in universities worldwide. Author
of invited articles in encyclopedia. He was a serious scientist who
knew the nuclear industry from the ground up.
This "anonymous" person has no knowledge about the Roy Process. It
remains secret for the benefit of industries who need exclusive Patent Rights
for commercialization.
Dr. Roy very well knew good science MUST BE cost effective or it is no good,
obviously. Dr. Roy was very famous in Europe, a fellow of the Curie Institute.
He would NEVER embarrass his awesome credentials by announcing new science
to the press, if he had any doubts about its feasibility and cost effectiveness.
Nuclear waste has become a multi-billion dollar economy. See:
http://headlines.igc.apc.org:8080/enheadlines/975378903/index_html
Corporate welfare for scientists. According to Public Citizen:
http://www.citizen.org/CMEP/RAGE/radwaste/prtransmutation.htm
The governments Los Alamos {neutron} transmutation proposal, which IS NOT
the Roy Process, only partially reduces half-life and 'creates' more
nuclear waste which they then bury only to leak out or explode in time anyway.
The DOE wants $280 billion over 117 years "to successfully implement the
program" that does not work! Talk about double dipping! There should be a
Nuke-gate Congressional investigation!
Dr. Roy was offered $5 million dollars by a group of lawyers representing
a large company. Dr. Roy was about to sign contracts and told these lawyers
he would be available to their company as consultant. Then these lawyers
told Dr. Roy, "it is not going to be developed" They wanted to buy it....to
kill it! Dr. Roy expelled these lawyers and began getting death threats!
I hope GDR will not publish "anonymous" incompetent critics who simply
don't know what they are talking about in future.
Sincerely,
Dennis F. Nester
Send your comments to, CommentsDrRoy@gdr.org
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