[ RadSafe ] Large Hadron Collider, etc.

[jpreisig at aol.com]

Dear Radsafe <from:   jpreisig at aol.com>,

     Hope you all are doing well.

     Large Hadron Collider is above 2 TeV now and working towards 7 TeV
<3.5 TeV on 3.5 TeV collisions>.  Links to information about LHC are on
Fermilab s front webpage.  2 TeV to 7 TeV is largely an unexplored energy
range.  Higgs particle and many other particles may be lurking there.  LHC
will be working towards 7 TeV in early 2010.

     Sunspots, hmmm.  See Smith and Jacobs Astrophysics book for info on
sunspots, solar flares, solar wind, associated particles, etc.  Newer books 
exist also.  See also the internet.  Global warming around 1932 is clearly
associated with USA Dust Bowl phenomena, etc.  There is a sunspot low 
around 1932.  I would think sunspot number highs would be associated
with solar light output lows.  This is not necessarily the case --- sunspot 
phenomena are rather complex.

     The top ten hottest years listed here in a radsafe e-mail <see 
Isenhower's
posting> Do occur at times of the rather broad peaks in polar motion 
amplitude I've discussed earlier.  The years 1976 and 1998 in the hockey
stick plot have meaning in the polar motion amplitude.  1976 is a polar 
motion amplitude minimum and 1998 is the time of the recent polar motion
amplitude maximum.  The meteorologists either are not accounting for Earth 
polar
motion in their calculations or they are doing some after the fact fitting 
that
seems to be producing some funky??? results.  See Peixoto and Oort's
book on Atmospheric Science/Meteorology for a discussion of all the complex
physical phenomena which are being modelled.  The book also discusses
greenhouse gases a bit.  One cannot disregard Earth wobbles --- the tipping 
of
the Earth towards the Sun is similar to the geophysical phenomena which
produce our Earth seasons.

    SUN is a source of light due to fusion reactions.  Space is the 
intervening
medium.  Earth is like a receiver where the solar light is observed.  
Orientation
of receivers <or DETECTORS of radiation> is important.  Journal of 
Geophysical
Research <JGR> may have a series of journals which discuss solar 
phenomena???

    Saw on TV today that some researchers have done genetic mapping <
complete>
of several types of Cancer.  Guess they are on their way to understand
fundamentally how these and other Cancers work.

    Also saw on TV that some researchers are treating the Sickle Cell 
disease
with STEM cells from patient's relatives.  The STEM cells are installed, the
Sickle blood cells disappear and one is left with a patient with healthy 
blood.

    Space trips will soon be available to regular citizens here in the USA 
via
a private spaceship travel firm.  Cost is something around $200,000.  Don't
know if they have Doggie rates, Maury.  Maury, your down home web
personality slipped into hardcore scientist mode the other day.  The cat is 
out
of the bag now.  Guess I'll have to look your scientific works up on the web
and in the library to see what you are really about.

     Last I heard Cs-137 wasn't terribly mobile in the environment.  Not as 
mobile
as Tritium, C-14, Tc-99. I-129, etc.  See groundwater books by Freeze and 
Cherry and deMarsily.  Kd values which describe how mobile radionuclides
are in the environment can be found in the scientific lierature --- 
sometimes I
lift the Kd values from computer codes like Presto, Porflo, GENII, 
Femwater/BLT
etc.  Don't forget radon etc.  Femwater/BLT is a pretty good hydrogeological
computer code and last I heard it was available on Personal Computer.
Probably there are even better computer codes now.  See also codes like
Femwater, Femwaste, LEWA, etc. by George Yeh out of Penn State.  I think
Femwater/BLT was by Suen and Sullivan.  The geochemical conditions
and geological makeup of your problem must satisfy the conditions outlined
in the book by deMarsily or other books.

      Guess all the heavy particle physics experimenters are headed to 
CERN???
Will Fermilab become a ghost-town???  Brookhaven's RHIC gets its funding
from the DOE Nuclear physics money pile and should be allright for a while.

      Once Spent LWR reactor fuel is processed in a fast neutron reactor, 
one has
some some fairly long-lived radionuclides left behind with some mobility.  
Could
one place the fuel from the fast reactor into a similar sized pool of 
water, and 
allow the mobile radionuclides to leach out significantly from the 
processed fuel
<all within an enclosed structure>.  Then take the fluid and evaporate the 
water
<or heat slightly> leaving the radionuclides behind plated out on a metal or
whatever container.  Then glassify the leftover radionuclides???

      Don't process the spent fuel with acid without some sort of enclosed
structure --- it makes the people in Idaho and elsewhere in the Northwest
real nervous.

      Anyway, I've said too much already.  You older gentlemen/ladies here
on Radsafe <with scads of money saved away> get ready for your space
flight.

     Have a great week!!!!     Regards,    Joseph R. <Joe> Preisig, Ph.D.


 
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