Transmutation Revolution? Mitsubishi Granted Patent for ‘Nuclide Transmutation’ Process

ECat World ^ | March 4, 2014 | Admin

[Kevmo]

Transmutation Revolution? Mitsubishi Granted Patent for ‘Nuclide Transmutation’ Process Posted on March 4, 2014 by admin • 64 Comments

Thanks to Cold Fusion Now and AlainCo at LENR Forum for picking up what seems to be a very important development — Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has been granted a patent by the European Patent Office for a “Nuclide transmutation device and nuclide transmutation method” which the introduction to the patent states could allow for the transforming of long-lived radioactive waste into short-lived radioactive nuclides or stable nuclides, and the transmutation of abundant elements into rare earth elements.

The patent application was filed in 2001 and was granted on December 3 2013, and the inventors are listed as Yasuhiro Iwamura, Takehiko Itoh and Mitsuru Sakano with the applicant being Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

I don’t find a reference to LENR itself in the patent application, but the description of the device clearly shows that an LENR process is involved. The invention is described as a ‘small scale device’ which comprises of a multilayer structure body made of palladium or other hydrogen absorbing metal or alloy, absorption and desorption parts that surround the body, and high and low pressurization devices that produce deuterium.

The granting of this patent provides an important stamp of credibility for the field of LENR, and opens a door to a world of possibilities in materials science where elements can be engineered in useful ways. Mitsubishi is one of the world’s giants of engineering and having them involved in LENR development, and now granted this patent, will surely garner the attention of the engineering, scientific and business worlds.

[Kevmo]

Interesting comments at the site:

Rob Lewis • 3 hours ago
The Patent Office's job description does not include verifying that the claimed invention will actually work (as evidenced by the multiple patents on perpetual motion machines). All they require—at least in the U.S.—is that the invention be novel, useful, and non-obvious, and that it be disclosed in sufficient detail for a person of ordinary skill in the art to make and use it.

And 12 years is a long time for an application to be pending. •
Reply • Share › Avatar LukeDC • 4 hours ago

Like all the physicists that have wasted their careers on hot fusion researchthe same can be said for a generation of academics who are now facing the reality that their careers have been based on a falsehood. The end of Supersymmetry.... https://medium.com/starts-with...

• Reply • Share › Avatar Obvious LukeDC • 3 hours ago

A negative result in science is not a necessarily waste of a career or time. In science, a negative result informs scientists of the refined limits of where the actual answer or theory can be. It may be disappointing, true, especially if it is pet a theory. Besides, a physicist collecting a paycheck (and some of them get rather nice ones) don't have to hand it all back if the science work done is proved to be based on flawed assumptions. Does a musician decide his career was a waste of time if his lyrics are shown to be better prose than catchy songs? Does a garbage man decide his career was a waste of time if it shown he is better at making garbage than dumping it in a bin?

• Reply • Share › − Avatar graham bell • 9 hours ago
Has anyone else seen this story on the BBC?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...

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[Jack Hydrazine]

Modern alchemy???

[Ray76]

“transforming of long-lived radioactive waste into short-lived radioactive nuclides or stable nuclides”

Could be useful at Fukushima. There is a large amount of contaminated water.

[Boogieman]

What is fusion and fission if not modern alchemy?

[Jack Hydrazine]

If only they could transmute lead into gold!

[Rodamala]

Transmute!

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Mercury to Gold is easier, cost about $2500/oz. back in the 80’s. Seawater harvesting cost about $2000/oz. then.

[LyinLibs]

If only they could transmute moslems into humans.

[fella]

" the transmutation of abundant elements into rare earth elements."

I've always wanted a good cheap solid gold bathtub.

[Kevmo]

I would rather have a $2 catalytic converter. Gold bathtubs will be passe’ by the time this stuff really works reliably.

[Red Badger]

If only they could transmute lead into gold!

They already have. Tried to buy ammo lately?..........................

[Red Badger]

Gold is too soft for such things. It would have to be pretty thick to hold me..................

[RinaseaofDs]

Only took the euros 12 years to grant the patent! It’s a land-speed record, for snails.

[Kevmo]

Ding ding ding! Post of the day. Ties all of current events up into one sentence.