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Hi all.
I may have made a significant discovery in that 239Pu and 235U are in fact metastable and can be rendered essentially inert from orbit due to internal nucleus structure having a vulnerability to incident coherent neutrino radiation.
The device wouldn't be much larger than a conventional satellite but any nuclear weapon with these elements would be rendered permanently unusable until the core (precision cast, hard to replicate) and tamper are both replaced. There doesen't seem to be a limit on distance as the beam could scan down to a depth of 4 miles (complete overkill) in ocean and further still on land.
The added advantage of this device is that it could scan anywhere under its orbit and only elements with the correct nuclear structure are affected so 241Am and light medical isotopes would be fine.
It could be used as a deterrent, while being programmed to only activate when a given region is threatened as it would have negative effects on nuclear power plants such as a sudden drop in reactivity when the beam is incident.
Any ideas? Obviously publishing the schematics would be the next step..
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The idea is based on the observation that neutrinos seem to affect radioactive half life at least in certain isotopes used in nuclear medicine. If this is indeed the case then a neutrino laser beam (if such a thing is possible) would affect very heavy atoms with large cross sectional areas much more than light ones causing an internal shift in nucleon structure leading to a multiple atomic number decrease in mass with the emission of alpha particles.
If there is enough gallium present (IIRC 3-5%) then there is a chance of a stable superheavy element forming with Z=122 as Ga (31)+Pu (94) with the previously mentioned induced alpha decay mode. Here the reaction would be Z94+Z31 = Z125, single alpha emitted Z2 would yield Z=123 which would emit 1 neutron after about 300us to yield stable Z=122 with some minor nuclear shell reorganization.
A possible indirect reaction would be Z94+Z31 = Z125, double alpha emission would give Z=121 which would then convert a neutron into a proton to again yield stable Z122. The latter might be more thermodynamically favorable and would be aneutronic with only high energy gammas given off.
Its possible at least theoretically, the catch is needing a neutrino laser. This at the moment is the sticking point as we have no idea how to make one without something like a confined artificial singularity. Perhaps if certain theories about quantum gravity are correct then there is a way to emit coherent neutrino beams from a specific nuclear transition within an existing metastable isotope ie 180Ta or 99Mo. Or a wakefield accelerator could also do the trick, here the awkward part would be generating the terawatt class laser beam needed in something relatively compact and powering the laser and chirped pulse amplifiers.
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Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 01:31PM
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Conundrum wrote ...
The idea is based on the observation that neutrinos seem to affect radioactive half life at least in certain isotopes used in nuclear medicine. If this is indeed the case then a neutrino laser beam (if such a thing is possible) would affect very heavy atoms with large cross sectional areas much more than light ones causing an internal shift in nucleon structure leading to a multiple atomic number decrease in mass with the emission of alpha particles.
If there is enough gallium present (IIRC 3-5%) then there is a chance of a stable superheavy element forming with Z=122 as Ga (31)+Pu (94) with the previously mentioned induced alpha decay mode. Here the reaction would be Z94+Z31 = Z125, single alpha emitted Z2 would yield Z=123 which would emit 1 neutron after about 300us to yield stable Z=122 with some minor nuclear shell reorganization.
A possible indirect reaction would be Z94+Z31 = Z125, double alpha emission would give Z=121 which would then convert a neutron into a proton to again yield stable Z122. The latter might be more thermodynamically favorable and would be aneutronic with only high energy gammas given off.
Its possible at least theoretically, the catch is needing a neutrino laser. This at the moment is the sticking point as we have no idea how to make one without something like a confined artificial singularity. Perhaps if certain theories about quantum gravity are correct then there is a way to emit coherent neutrino beams from a specific nuclear transition within an existing metastable isotope ie 180Ta or 99Mo. Or a wakefield accelerator could also do the trick, here the awkward part would be generating the terawatt class laser beam needed in something relatively compact and powering the laser and chirped pulse amplifiers.
The observation that neutrinos affect radioactive decay has more evidence against it than in favor of it. It's generally not a good sign when an effect disappears when the experiment is done with better control of outside factors. Even if the effect was real, it is so miniscule that it wouldn't do any practical difference to the 24000 year half life of Pu-239.
Neutrino lasers are science fiction.
The proposed reaction has no basis in accepted nuclear physics, alpha decay is very different from fusion. There's a lot more to nuclear physics than just adding atomic numbers toghether.
This is mostly pseudoscience. Please keep in mind that this is a science forum, and pseudoscience is not accepted here.
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