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Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from “a million years to 30 minutes,”
- helph67 7y ago404 error. Here's the full link... https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/laser-nuclear-waste https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/laser-nuclear-was...
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoThanks. My bad. I can’t seem to edit the url anymore.
- gus_massa 7y ago> If he gets pulses 10,000 times faster, he says he can modify waste on an atomic level. > Mourou and Tajima hope to be able to shrink the distance a light beam has to travel to transmute atoms by a further 10,000 times. The article is not very clear, and it makes no sense to use a short (in time) pulse and even less a short (in distance) pulse. Perhaps they want to increase the frequency of the light 10,000 times that will shrink the wavelength and period 10,000 times. It also increases 10,000 times the energy of each photon so it may induce nuclear reactions. This would create a gama-ray laser. It looks very difficult.
- simonblack 7y ago"magical" thinking. Meanwhile, what happens with the energy surplus/deficit which occurs with changing one nucleus to another? To put that another way, think of "a million years" of breakdown energy being released in a mere "30 minutes". I reckon it's a scam in trying to attract 'research funds'.
- ohiovr 7y agoAt non trivial rates?