The Simpsons, along with everyone in their world, live in the octal numerical system but all of their math is still in base 10. Are we to believe that they have some sort of magical invisible digit on each of their extremities? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Combining High Intensity Magnetic Fields, Pulsed Laser Deposition, and
Finely Controlled Positron Beams to Induce the Extreme Quantum Limit
in U-235 Atoms in order to Achieve Rapid Depletion of Hazardous
Nuclear Waste
As we begin to prepare for the shift to fusion power, questions remain about what to do about the vast
quantities of nuclear waste that have resulted from decades of use of enriched uranium to generate
electricity. It can’t simply be blasted into space because of the high probability of a rocket explosion, it
can’t be safely transported across the country and there’s no guarantee that buried casks wouldn’t
eventually corrode even if kept in dry conditions. Seismic activity, volcanic activity, and even sabotage
or theft of nuclear waste have to be taken into consideration. What is needed is a way of rendering
nuclear waste as close to inert as possible. It should be noted that we already have a means of rendering
chemical weapons inert, but alas, chemical reactions come more easily than nuclear ones.
A recent experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory explored the behavior of electrons in certain
semiconductors after inducing what is known as the extreme quantum limit. They found that
superconduction could be observed in the form of “dancing” electrons if all of the electrons in atoms of a
metal oxide could be “forced” to occupy the lowest energy state, and physically, the nearest orbit to the
nucleus of the atom possible. So many electrons pushed into close proximity with others forced them to
interact in a new way.
