On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:36:03 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


"martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:23:38 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Franz Heymann wrote:

In particular, all the material which is said to be
difficult to store (spuriously so) can be transmuted into short lived
radioactive materials. ( Stuff which is typically rendered safe
within
days
or less). The suggestion was originally made a few years ago by a
Nobel
prize winning physicist, Carlo Rubbia and has been analysed in great
detail
by a group of high energy particle physicists, The process has been
shown to
be entirely feasible.

I would be intensely interested in any material on the web that you
could direct my attention to, concerning this.

I don't know if it is anywhere on the web. It has been written up as
Laboratory Reports, and in the international professional physics
journals.
I will hunt to see if I find anything on the net.

I was told it was offered to the French govt. and an Italian
company(ies) was set up to exploit it.

I did not know that. If that is right, I hope it is moving forward. The
Italian particle physicists and engineers are second to none.

Yes that's true, says he remembering fission in a test tube in the
Fermi Lab in Frascati :-)

I think it's very old news, the guy who told me worked at Cern
donkey's years ago, but I think after you were there :-)


If it is true, it needs serious evaluation.

It has been evaluated seriously in the physics community.

What you aretalking about is essentially ';sterilisation' of long lived
isotopes by blasting them in and around a recator into presumably
somewhat 'hotter' but less enduring isotopes, that could be stuck
somewhere for ten years, and then be 'cold' enough to dispose of in
more
normal ways?

Very roughly, yes. But I am talking of stashing the stuff for weeks or
months, not decades.

in the compost heap (desperately trying to get this OT)

Saved by the gong.

Can you come back next week?
--
Martin