Can someone please explain the alleged physics of this? I can’t tell if it’s pseudoscience nonsense or genius.
If the latter, is this exothermic? By fast-burning these isotopes, won’t you release alot of energy too? Or is the laser just that costly that it’s net negative?
CPA produces high-intensity, super-short optical pulses that pack a tremendous amount of power (…)
This capability is what Mourou hopes give CPA a chance of neutralizing nuclear waste, (…)
Yet, it is not efficient :
Rodney C. Ewing of Stanford tells Bloomberg, “I can imagine that the physics might work, but the transmutation of high-level nuclear waste requires a number of challenging steps, such as the separation of individual radionuclides, the fabrication of targets on a large scale, and finally, their irradiation and disposal.”
Can someone please explain the alleged physics of this? I can’t tell if it’s pseudoscience nonsense or genius.
If the latter, is this exothermic? By fast-burning these isotopes, won’t you release alot of energy too? Or is the laser just that costly that it’s net negative?
( published 2019-04-04 )
in theory at least it's okay :
CPA produces high-intensity, super-short optical pulses that pack a tremendous amount of power (…)
This capability is what Mourou hopes give CPA a chance of neutralizing nuclear waste, (…)
Yet, it is not efficient :
Somehow doubt that Nobel prize winner is peddling pseudoscience. The research is legit and has been published in Journal of Physics https://www.science.org/content/article/lasers-defuse-nuclear-waste
I’d doubt it too, but when the article does nothing to describe how it works it sounds like pseudoscience to me. Thanks for the link.