Stabilizing the Chernobyl reactor site using LENR.
The Chernobyl reactor site will remain dangerous to life for many centuries. During this long period, it will become increasing more difficult and expensive to enclose the old deteriorating sarcophagi with ever larger enclosures.
With the advent of LENR technology, it may be possible to stabilize the ruins of the Chernobyl reactor encased in the sarcophagus using one or more LENR based turbines through the exposure of heated air produced by a LENR source to circulate around inside the sarcophagus.
The LENR based turbines will transfer the spin chirality of the LENR reaction onto the air that cools the LENR reaction. This LENR processed air will tend to stabilize the radioactive isotopes contained inside the sarcophagus though the transfer of LENR chirality onto the radioactive ash of the Chernobyl reactor. The decay rates of these radioactive isotopes will accelerate and after a short time will stabilize.
An experiment to verify if this process will work entails placing a radioactive isotope in air contact with a LENR reactor. Once we get a LENR reactor to operate in a more or less stable manor for a short time, the radiation produced by the radioactive source in air contact can be measured. The “Alan experiment” could be such a working LENR reactor. The radioactive isotope could be placed both inside the plasma tube and also on the surface of the plasma tube of the “Alan experiment” and monitored for a decrease in its production of radiation and a change in their half-life.
The Chernobyl reactor stabilization effort would just be a process of scaling up this LENR method.
