Russian Team “Actinides” Announces Discovery of Industrial Biochemical Method of Elemental Transmutation (Press Conference and Press Release)

The researchers require 5 $Million to get started in setting up a lab.

full info on their website:
http://bt-isotopes.com/

I am looking for the possibility of producing rare earths with this method. Such a capability would make China very sad and Japan very happy.

The enrichment of U235 using this method would be bad.

Transmutation of U238 produces U233 among other things. This is worse than U235. Using U233, a bomb can be made critical with only a third of what U235 can do.

Gold, iridium, mercury and platinum among other things come from plutonium239, 240...etc(nuclear waste).

Plutonium 208, 209, and 210 is produced is huge volumes. This stuff is used to kill spies and make nuclear space batteries.

The theory is electron conversion of a proton to a neutron and vis versa neutron to proton then the alpha decays moves elements to the left or the right in the P-table.

This makes nuclear reactors easier to setup by making fuel readily available. Lithium can be produced for car batteries.

Nuclear medicine is enabled through abundant nuclear isotopes.

Radium production is cut by $millions per gram and Actinium 227 by 100s of $millions per gram.

This process does not produce energy and therefore is not related to LENR(their opinion).

Only one type of bacteria does it all, but there are a few others which may substitute.

The good news, this technology will force science to figure out how LENR works. Rossi's massive reactor production is no longer required to awaken science to LENR.

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Metallic gardening here we go

Where were you when alchemy was proven real?

This is the real value of this technology. It is to prove that alchemy is real and can generated megatons of money.

Good point Axil. If this technology allows cheap conversion of U-238 to U-235, it is weapons proliferative and needs to be controlled.

If that is the case, it is my hope that it does not work unless it can be contained.

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Good point Axil. If this technology allows cheap conversion of U-238 to U-235, it is weapons proliferative and needs to be controlled.

If that is the case, it is my hope that it does not work unless it can be contained.

A laser, water, and gold nanopowder can do the same thing.

Bacteria might use LENR energy for food and transmute that energy to produce the elements that make up their bodies.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/n…does-it-eat?v=1346949975#

A mysterious, weblike growth with a fondness for Savannah River Site’s spent nuclear fuel has been identified – but not formally named.

“We did a genetic analysis and found a diverse population of mostly bacteria,” said Christopher Berry, the senior technical adviser of the Savannah River National Labortory.

The “white, stringlike” substance was first observed in October among old fuel assemblies submerged in the site’s L Area basin, where nuclear materials from foreign and domestic research reactors are stored and guarded.

Although the growth was deemed harmless, its ability to thrive and spread in such an unusual environment prompted a more detailed analysis.

“We were able to identify a large portion of the bacteria making up the cobwebs, but there were certainly some where the DNA sequencing came back as unknown,” Berry said.

Although rare, bacterial colonies have been observed in a few nuclear environments, including a Canadian reactor and at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, where a growth developed in the site’s spent fuel basin after its 1979 accident.

Scientists at SRS still have one more local mystery to solve.
“Right now we are trying to figure out what these bacteria are using for food,” Berry said. “In other words, what is their carbon source?”

Water in which spent fuel is stored is carefully filtered, treated and deionized to prevent anything that might contribute to corrosion – a perennial concern in nuclear waste storage.

If its food source can be identified and eliminated, the bacteria – and the cobwebs – might be more easily controlled, Berry said.
“We found no evidence it contributes to corrosion,” he said. “But visually, they want to get rid of it.”

http://www.scienceagogo.com/ne…22547data_trunc_sys.shtml

Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation

Fungus use gamma radiation for food. They must transmute that gamma energy into the elements of their body structure.

Here an older paper about bio.-transmutation CS137

http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/108/04/0636.pdf