Reply To: Bizarre Kind of Thorium Fission Discovered ( very weird )

[Axil]

Tasmodevil44 wrote: Yes, I have already been doing some research and reading – up on Thorium Power, based in Washington, D.C. They are working on fuel rods that can adapt thorium to already existing nuclear plants. There is also the LFTR (liquid flouride thorium reactor) specifically designed for thorium. When research on it was cancelled back in 1974, it was one of the biggest mistakes in nuclear research. Thorium can definitely be a second back – up alternative in the event things like focus fusion don’t pan – out for some reason (although I have pretty high confidence that focus fusion can work).

But as far as any attempt at hybrid fission/fusion in a DPF, I have done ruled – out and discounted the possibility that it might be able to assist pB11 fusion in getting it over the so – called “hump” to help it along. Such hybrid fission/fusion works well in the thermonuclear H – Bomb, but is incompatible with the DPF. But while researching the subject, I found this other bizarre kind of thorium fission to be rather academically interesting, but still impractical and useless.

I think what you have run into is “Low Energy Nuclear Reaction” (LENR). This is a proposed nuclear process that is put forward to explain “Cold Fusion”. In short, under the right conditions LENR says that a hydrogen atom can turn into a neutron.

If this reaction exists, it will be very transformative of nuclear physics and is therefore soundly rejected and feared by the nuclear and high energy physics communities.

However, as you have pointed out, there are many experimental results that confirm that something can transmute all types of elements and their isotopes to other elements; and amazingly, this can be done without any release of neutrons or radiation.

For example, cavitation and/or electric arc discharge in a liquid can transmute nuclear waste into non radioactive isotopes in a short timeframe; hours or days.

A number of patens have already been developed to use this as of yet not understood process to detoxify nuclear waste.

This process could undercut the attractiveness of boron fusion as an energy production process and will therefore be soundly rejected and feared by this focus fusion community; I understand, it is only human.

Remember, that when thorium fissions, it produces about 200 Mev per atom and 800 MeV total per reaction; and when boron fusions, it produces only about 3 Mev per reaction.

Like all hot fusion processes, focus fusion will destroy its “first wall” and structural material in short order from its emissions of both high energy alpha particles and high energy electrons causing material erosion from its plasma. Solid matter cannot withstand fusion over time. In other words, unless the focus fusion reactor is reengineered it will not last very long.