IMHO strong magnetic fields varying at a given resonant frequency (like in a laser or gaser) have a good chance of causing a metastable isomer that fissions—gives up potential energy to kinetic energy of two or more new particles which may be unstable themselves.
This method of radioactive waste management is one of 7 or8 options listed in the DOE’s EIS for high level waste management at Hanford, issued in the late 1970’s. It was considered impractical since there was no open (not dark) laser/gaser technology available to produce the resonant magnetic/electric fields of sufficient intensity to penetrate the atomic electronic structure. Bob Cook From: Eric Walker<mailto:eric.wal...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 6:35 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Fission of heavy nuclei under assymetric electron screening? Hi Robin, On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:34 AM, <mix...@bigpond.com<mailto:mix...@bigpond.com>> wrote: In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 17 Sep 2017 19:10:22 -0500: Hi Eric, While the concept is interesting, consider that it won't deliver excess energy unless the original isotope is already radioactive. If it is, then you may have a way of shortening the half life. How are you contemplating going about it? (Plenty of radioactive substances around that many people would be only to happy to pay you to take away. ;) The hope was that if the idea had merit in the case of heavy nuclei that decay by spontaneous fission, it might also be applicable to heavy nuclei that are normally stable. One thought about how to trigger the process: a strong magnetic field will shift the electron orbitals in a preferred direction; perhaps this will in turn set up a gradient of electron density along the preferred direction. Eric
