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Question Asked 21st Jun, 2020 Prashant Sharma Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) People say that LENR will change the geo political and geo economic scenarios of the world...Is this technology really that great and capable...??? Nuclear Engineering Share ResearchGate Logo Get help with your research
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All Answers (3) 7th Jul, 2020 Kenneth Ricci Adelphi Technology Inc. Research into Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (also related to topics "Cold Fusion" and "Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions) is controversial, mainly because some physicists, chemists, and engineers in the past have made claims that turned out to be inaccurate. These sensationalist claims suggested that energy from LENR might be "just a small engineering step away," which would change the world by revolutionizing the way industrial nations produce electricity and use energy. However, some 22 years after the most sensational claims from LENR were made (look up the Pons-Fleischmann Effect on Wikipedia for details), there is still no theoretical understanding of the effect, no fully reproducible method to derive energy from it, and substantial disagreement over exactly what is actually taking place in these experiments. There is a general consensus among experts in this experimental field that some nuclear reactions are taking place, but since the energy required to initiate these nuclear reactions is missing (hence "low energy nuclear reaction" as opposed to high energy nuclear reactions which are well understood) there are many different and contradictory explanations for how a chemical system (usually a metal lattice with a high level of defects or impurities) can somehow catalyze or accelerate the rate of nuclear reactions which would normally be negligibly slow/improbable at these energies. Since there is no consensus on the theory, or on how to reliably produce useful results, progress in this field has been painfully slow over the past two decades. No one can predict when, if ever, this research process might eventually lead to a practical energy source. Cite 1st May, 2020 SOHAIL AHMAD KHAN Atomic Energy Regulatory Board As of now we don't have any tiny device which can generate/store mega energy to facilitate continuous supply for cooking, heating or running electric appliances. If the LENR becomes feasible, this requirement may be fulfilled. Now question is what next? Obviously, this invention may be used for constructive as well as destructive purpose. if it is used for constructive purpose, the quality of lifestyle of majority of population will improve in no time. thus geo economic scenario will significantly change. In case this is used for destructive purpose, war of power will start and its misuse can definitely have great bearing on geo political scenario. Hope our new generation aim for constructive use of this kind of important invention. Good question, keep it up. Cite 1st May, 2020 Kenneth Ricci Adelphi Technology Inc. It is true, almost any technology could be used for good or for evil. However, fusion physicists have always hoped that fusion would be harder to use for evil and easier to use for good, compared to fission nuclear energy. Consider that the very first practical use of large-scale fission technology was to kill about 200,000 people: not a very benevolent start for a technology that has now done great good for humanity. One reason fission is inherently "risky" is the need for an unstable chain reaction to extract nuclear energy by fission: the isotopes U235, Pu239, and a few others (created artificially in a reactor) can be arranged in such a way that a neutron chain reaction develops, which naturally grows exponentially over time, resulting in an explosion. Any exponential growth process in physics is unstable, and since neutron interactions in heavy metals have time-constants in nanoseconds (given by mean free path and fission energy of the typical neutron), rapid exponential reaction growth in ultra-short time-constant, with very high energy density = very big explosion. This is why fission naturally lent itself to weaponization as its first application, and only later could this neutron chain-reaction be slowed down, controlled, and tamed in a way that made it safe enough to use for energy extraction and electricity generation. Fusion by contrast occurs naturally in stars in a way that does not lead to an unstable run-away chain reaction and detonation. It is true, eventually the star will go unstable after tens of millions or billions of years and collapse, or blow itself apart, but for very long periods of time, the hot hydrogen gas of a medium-sized star can remain in balanced equilibrium between the gravitational forces leading to star collapse and the fusion pressure preventing collapse. So there is an example in nature of nuclear fusion energy that is stable and self-controlling. Fusion of course on earth has already been weaponized; but only in conjunction with a fission detonation trigger, the only mechanism we have so far with high enough energy density to initiate thermonuclear fusion "burn" on a large scale. The hope is eventually to find a way to initiate fusion without the high-energy density of a fission detonation, and without the unstable chain reaction typical of fission reactions in U235 or Pu239. Then maybe we would have a device that release fusion energy by combining light nuclei at a useful rate, without a comparably large risk of nuclear weapons proliferation. One way would be to use magnetic and electric fields to compress and heat isotopes of light elements (hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, or boron); another way would be to use inertial collisions (inertial confinement) such as spherically-directed X-ray beam impulses, or colliding ion beams or colliding plasmas; another way imagines shockwaves in a nonlinear medium (sonoluminescent or bubble fusion, or plasma-shockwave fusion); still other ways focus on using electric fields combined with sharp lattice defects to catalyze fusion through local ion acceleration in locally intense electric fields. Many recent ideas are combining several of these approaches at once. In general, the "hot fusion" physics is better understood than the "cold fusion" or Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) physics-- theorists generally agree on what is needed for Hot Fusion, and there is disagreement even about the basic principles of what makes LENR work, or if it actually works at all. So while LENR appears to have a "lower cost to entry" (you don't need a machine the size of a football field to do an experiment), without any good theory it is like stumbling in the dark hoping to find a hidden treasure: the experiments have high likelihood of failure for many years. Cite 1 Recommendation Can you help by adding an answer? Answer Add your answer Add your answer
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