>From the personal web site of Ludwik Kowalski.
> http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/273microbial.html > > A note on microbial transmutation > > Ludwik Kowalski (11/29/05) > > Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey > > One of the fields of CMNS (Condensed Matter Nuclear Science) is CT (Cold > Transmutation). And microbial induced transmutation is a small part of that > field. Last year, during the ICCF12 (12th International Conference on Cold > Fusion), I heard about Ukrainian - Russian experiments in that subfield. They > were conducted in a laboratory near Chernobyl. Scientists from the University > of Kiev and university of Moscow were able to transmute radioactive cesium - > 137Cs - into nonradioactive products. Today I learned that more recent > phenomena (in the same laboratory) confirmed the earlier report. Radioactive > salt was dissolved in water and some kind of bacteria, highly resistant to > radiation, were introduced into small (20 cc) flasks. One half of each sealed > flask was filled with the solution while the other half was air. > > Gamma rays emerging from the loaded flasks was observed for 100 days. During > that time radioactivity was reduced, typically by 30%. The half-life of 137Cs, > the most troublesome fission product, is 30 years. With the help of bacteria, > according to the A.A. Kornilova and V.I. Vysockii report, that material can be > eliminated much faster than by natural radioactive decay. Destroying 137Cs, > and other radioactive fission products, would be a tremendous boost to nuclear > electricity. The problem of storage of radioactive waste would be simplified > greatly if Cs and Sr could be destroyed. According to the report, the > reduction of radioactivity, measured by several large Ge detectors, could not > be due to changes in the counting geometry caused by progressive > redistribution of radioactivity. That was my first concern. They used several > large detectors; the total solid angle was about 2*Pi. > > After hearing the news I said that such important invention, if real, would be > a solution of our energy dilemma. Here is how that dilemma was summarized by > Dr. Akito Takahashi, the conference organizer, in the opening talk... For rest visit the url above. Harry
