Mitsubishi Cold Fusion LENR Patent Granted Transmutes Nuclear Waste

Amazingly enough LENR patents are now being granted, after passing the muster of the patent examiner. They must perform, as described, in order to do so. Each time I rejoice, and after studying it deeply, appreciate the brilliant and applied efforts undertaken to achieve such a patent granted.

Initial Patent Application – Filed 2001

Nuclide Transmutation Device and Nuclide Transmutation Method

Iwamura, Y., T. Itoh, and M. Sakano Iwamura, Y., T. Itoh, and M. Sakano, 2002, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.: U.S.A.

Abstract

The present invention produces nuclide transmutation using a relatively small-scale device. The device that produces nuclide transmutation comprises a structure body that is substantially plate shaped and made of palladium (Pd) or palladium alloy, or another metal that absorbs hydrogen (for example, Ti) or an alloy thereof, and a material that undergoes nuclide transmutation laminated on one surface among the two surfaces of this structure body.

The one surface side of the structure body, for example, is a region in which the pressure of the deuterium is high due to pressure or electrolysis and the like, and the other surface side, for example, is a region in which the pressure of the deuterium is low due to vacuum exhausting and the like, and thereby, a flow of deuterium in the structure body is produced, and nuclide transmutation is carried out by a reaction between the deuterium and the material that undergoes nuclide transmutation.

Cold Fusion

Now this LENR patent has been granted, Dec. 4th, 2013

Years of consolidated efforts between multiple branches of advanced arts of science has led to improvements, another successful LENR patent is granted. This important LENR technology transmutes nuclear waste to benign elements, with simpler processes than used today, much less expensive machinery, and can even handle those hard to transmute actinides, such as Cs-137.

A Key to How

[0032] According to the nuclide transmutation method described above, the material that undergoes nuclide transmutation is transmuted to a nuclide having a similar isotopic ratio composition, and thereby the nuclide transmutation reaction can be promoted.

Nuclide Transmutation Device and Nuclide Transmutation Method

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INPADOC legal status: EP1202290  (B1) ― 2013-12-04

Legal status of EP1202290 (A2) 2002-05-02; EP1202290 (A3) 2003-06-04; EP1202290 (B1) 2013-12-04: EP F 01402812  A (Patent of invention)

Publication number: EP1202290B1

Publication type: Grant
Application number: EP20010402812
Publication date: Dec 4, 2013
Inventors: Yasuhiro Iwamura, Takehiko Itoh, Mitsuru Sakano

Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Description of Arts Related to Actinides Remediation

[0004] Three types of disposal processing methods are known:
  • i) disposal processing for actinides and the like by neutron irradiation in a nuclear reactor such as a fast breeder reactor or an actinide burn reactor;
  • ii) nuclear spallation processing for actinides and the like by neutron irradiation in an accelerator,
  • iii) and disposal processing of cesium, strontium, and the like by gamma ray irradiation in an accelerator.

Known Processing Methods are Problematic

Hence the growing stockpiles of nuclear waste. Presently utilized nuclear waste disposal processes are clearly inadequate, difficult, and extremely expensive as described here.

[0010] However, in the case of carrying out nuclide transmutation using a nuclear reactor or an accelerator, as in the disposal processes in the above-described examples of conventional technology, there are the problems in that large-scale and high cost apparatuses must be used,

[0011] Furthermore, in the case of processing, for example, Cs-137, which is a long-lived radioactive nuclide fission product, when transmutating Cs-137 radiated from an electron power generator of about one million KW to another nuclide using an accelerator, there are problems in that the necessary power reaches one million KW and a high strength and large current accelerator become necessary, and thus efficiency is low.

[0012] In addition, in contrast to a thermal neutron flux of about 1×1014/cm2/sec in a nuclear reactor such as a light water reactor, the neutron flux necessary for nuclide transmutation of Cs-137, which has a small neutron interaction cross section, is about 1×1017 – 1×1018/cm2/sec, and there is the problem in that the necessary neutron flux cannot be attained.

Mitsubishi Patented LENR Nuclear Waste Remediation 

Claims

A nuclide transmutation device for achieving a nuclide transmutation, comprising:
  • i) a multilayer structure body; that is made of palladium or a palladium alloy, or a hydrogen absorbing metal other than palladium, or a hydrogen absorbing alloy other than a palladium alloy,
  • ii) an absorption part and a desorption part that are disposed so as to surround said multilayer structure body on the sides and form a closed space that can be sealed by said multilayer structure body,
  • iii) a high pressurization device that produces a relatively high pressure of deuterium at said absorption part on the side of the surface of said multilayer structure body,
  • iv) and a low pressurization device that produces a relatively low pressure of deuterium at said desorption part on the other side of the surface of said multilayer structure body,
Characterized in that said multilayer structure body includes:
  • i) a base material  including a hydrogen absorbing metal or a hydrogen absorbing alloy;
  • ii) a mixed layer formed on said base material and comprising a hydrogen absorbing metal or a hydrogen absorbing alloy,
  • iii) and a material having a low work function that allows emission of electrons equal to or less than 3 eV;
  • iv) a surface layer formed on said mixed layer and comprising a hydrogen absorbing metal or a hydrogen absorbing alloy;
  • v) and an additional layer bound on the surface of said surface layer and that undergoes nuclide transmutation,
  • vi) said high pressurization device includes a deuterium gas supply device configured to supply the deuterium gas into said absorption part so that said additional layer that undergoes nuclide transmutation is exposed to the deuterium gas and a flow of the deuterium that penetrates through the multilayer structure body is provided.

A nuclide transmutation device according to claim 1, wherein said additional layer that undergoesnuclide transmutation includes at least one of Cs, C, Sr and Na.

A nuclide transmutation device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said low pressurization device comprises an exhaust device which evacuates said desorption part.

A nuclide transmutation device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said base material is formed by Pd, said mixed layer is formed by Pd and a material having a work function equal to or less than 3 eV, and said surface layer is formed by Pd.

A nuclide transmutation device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein said mixed layer comprises layers of Pd and layers of CaO that are laminated alternately.

A nuclide transmutation device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein a heating device for controlling the temperature of the multilayer structure body is provided.

A nuclide transmutation method using the nuclide transmutation device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, comprising the step of:

  • i) a low pressurizing process that brings about a state in which the pressure of the deuterium is relatively low on the other surface side of said multilayer structure body,
  • ii) characterized in that the method further comprises a high pressurizing process of supplying a deuterium gas from said deuterium gas supply device into said absorption part so that the surface of said additional layer that undergoes nuclide  transmutation is exposed to the deuterium gas,
  • iii) and providing a flow of the deuterium that penetrates through the multilayer structure body.

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6 Replies to “Mitsubishi Cold Fusion LENR Patent Granted Transmutes Nuclear Waste”

  1. Hydrogen http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/hydrogen
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    Hydrogen Allotropy
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    allotropy (lŏ´trpē) [Gr.,=other form]. A chemical element is said to exhibit allotropy when it occurs in two or more forms in the same physical state; the forms are called allotropes. Allotropes generally differ in physical properties such as color and hardness; they may also differ in molecular structure or chemical activity, but are usually alike in most chemical properties. Diamond and graphite are two allotropes of the element carbon. Many metals have allotropic crystalline forms that are stable at different temperatures.
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    Atmospheric hydrogen is a mixture of three allotropic isotopes.
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    The most common is called protium. In the isotope of protium the nucleus is a proton.
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    A second isotope of hydrogen is deuterium. The deuterium nucleus is called the deuteron; it consists of a proton plus a neutron.
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    The two isotopes are found in atmospheric hydrogen in the proportion of about 1 atom of deuterium to every 6,700 atoms of protium.
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    Tritium is the third hydrogen isotope. It is a radioactive gas with a half-life of about 121⁄4 years. It is produced in nuclear reactions and occurs, to a very limited extent, in atmospheric hydrogen. The tritium nucleus is called the triton; it consists of a proton plus two neutrons.
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    The Hydrogen? http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_protons_neutrons_and_electrons_in_a_protium_atom
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    Protium: 1proton(P), 0 neutrons (N) and 1 electron (E)
    Deuterium: 1(P), 1(N) and 1 (E)
    Tritium: 1 (P), 2 (N) and 1 (E)
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    The transmutation of tritium, to deuterium, to protium creates a neutron cascade, which sets off hydrino capture, and ensuing electron cascades.
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    Besides being a mixture of three isotopes, hydrogen is a mixture of two forms, an ortho form and a para form, which differ in their electronic and nuclear spins. At room temperature atmospheric hydrogen is about 3⁄4 ortho-hydrogen and 1⁄4 para-hydrogen.

    Send the ensuing magnetic bipole moments into the equation.
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    Then there are neutron, proton, and nucleon cascades.
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    This places a complex of events, on the cold fusion (LENR) energetics scenarios.
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    1952
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    Cascade Theories with Ionization Loss – Phys. Rev. 87, 759 – Published 1 September 1952
    http://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.87.759
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    H. Messel and R. B. Potts
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    Abstract
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    Analytical solutions have previously been given for the number distribution functions and for the general moments of the electron-photon and nucleon cascades neglecting ionization losses (approximation A). Solutions are now given for the moments of the electron-photon and proton-neutron cascades taking into account energy loss, via ionization, by electrons and protons (approximation B).
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    The diffusion equations for the differential moment functions, which yield the required factorial moments by a simple integration over the energy variables, are transformed by Laplace-Mellin transforms to matrix recurrence relations, the general solution of which is obtained in the form of power series.
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    From these series, solutions for the moments in a form suitable for numerical calculations are obtained by a generalization of the method used by Bhabha and Chakrabarty for the first moments of the electron-photon cascade and by Messel in the proton-neutron cascade. To a first approximation, the solutions for the moments in approximation B are expressed as a correction factor multiplying the solutions obtained in approximation A.
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    Cascade Detector? Not related? http://n-cdt.com/products/cascade-detector-systems/
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    Perhaps related… OR Not?

    http://www.lbl.gov/ttd/techs/lbnl1764.html

    Compact Neutron Generators

    IB-1764

    OVERVIEW:

    Scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed innovative neutron generators that can be tailored to meet a variety of specifications. The generators invented by Ka-Ngo Leung and colleagues are unusual because they are compact, designed to be long-lasting and inexpensive to construct yet capable of using safe deuterium-deuterium reactions to produce a high neutron yield or flux. They can also be designed to use tritium-tritium reactions to generate neutrons across a broad energy spectrum or deuterium – tritium reactions to produce higher energy neutrons.

    Neutron generators like these can significantly enhance homeland security. X-ray imaging systems widely used in most airports and cargo inspection stations reveal object shapes and detect metals. Neutron-based techniques, however, are materials specific – they can be used to identify the elemental compositions of shipping and luggage content. Fissile materials, as well as conventional and plastic explosives, can be detected using neutron sources.

    The Berkeley Lab neutron generators consist of RF-driven plasma ion sources, extractors of various designs, acceleration electrodes, and titanium covered targets. Conventional generators are usually short-lived because the target’s isotopes are quickly consumed. The target in the Berkeley Lab generators, however, is constantly replenished by ions from the plasma source. These devices may last thousands of hours longer than conventional generators.

    The Berkeley Lab portfolio includes a multiple beam system for imaging luggage, small neutron tubes for oil well logging while drilling (LWD), as well as designs suitable for cargo interrogation, tumor therapy, and structural inspection. Because neutron generators can be used for imaging and interrogating so many materials, the applications listed for each invention are not exhaustive.

    Abstract:

    Dr. Leung has developed a compact spherical neutron generator that can use safe deuterium-deuterium (D-D) instead of radioactive deuterium-tritium (D-T) or tritium-tritium (T-T) reactions, and still provide a high neutron flux. This generator is designed with a small, spherical shell-shaped RF-driven plasma ion source surrounding a multihole extraction electrode which in turn surrounds a spherical target. Ions passing through the holes in the extraction electrode are focused onto the target, which is loaded with D or T by the impinging ion beam. Neutrons are emitted at all angles from the spherical generator.

    STATUS: U.S Patent #7,139,349. Available for licensing or collaborative research

  2. The transmutation reaction forming copper fron nickel with the aid of hydrogen is a topic well discussed in connection of the inventions of Piantelli and Rossi (see E-Cat device). The use of anionic hydrogen (H-) has been patented by Piantelli (see Cold Fusion Now the article “Cold Fusion Catalyst” wheein has been suggested to use anionic deuterium (D-). Mitsubishi people could have a try with it in atom transmutation of radioactive nuclei put possibly at positive voltage. Good luck!

  3. I am still awaiting an answer to my question “is the transmutation of nickel to copper real in the Rossi e-Cat process and has it been checked by spectrography showing the green line of copper?

    1. Others may have first hand knowledge, I don’t. The answer is most likely yes, there is supporting evidence for this.

      Low Energy Nuclear Reactions: Transmutations – by Mahadeva Srinivasan, George Miley, and Edmund Storms
      http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Srinivasanlowenergyn.pdf

      Also

      Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia: Science, Technology, and Applications – edited by Thomas B. Kingery

      http://books.google.com/books?id=rVe9y4JKecsC&pg=PA504&lpg=PA504&dq=nuclear+energy+in+an+atomic+lattice&source=bl&ots=hsAWB-mEJq&sig=i-SOghNwTI7qAjNWTXhF3Asj4u0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7QMuU4ThJ9TsoASZgoKIAQ&ved=0CHsQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=nuclear%20energy%20in%20an%20atomic%20lattice&f=false

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