Historical research guide · 0570 · 2022
LENR Transmutation of Stable Sr and K Isotopes in Activated Microbiological Syntrophic Anaerobic Association
Alla Kornilova · Sergey Gaydamaka · Vladimir Vysotskii
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Alla Kornilova and Sergey Gaydamaka of AV Systems, with Vladimir Vysotskii of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, have spent years on one practical question: can a living microbial culture be made to turn a dangerous reactor isotope into a harmless one? Their earlier work did it for caesium-137. Here they take the first step on strontium-90, rehearsing it on the stable twin strontium-88 in the reaction strontium-88 plus a proton gives yttrium-89. An anaerobic syntrophic association — a mixed community of microbes that feed one another — is grown for three weeks in a medium loaded with strontium and starved of the elements it needs. Before the run, the culture spends half an hour twenty centimetres from a cavitation unit emitting undamped thermal waves. In the treated run strontium falls and yttrium rises by a third, while potassium falls and calcium rises. The untreated control barely metabolises, and its element balance closes. Vysotskii’s mechanism is coherent correlated states: drive the potential well and tunnelling rates climb.
Connection
Chapter 12 is the argument that nuclei can be given more chances per second to tunnel through the barrier they already face, and this is that idea carried into a living system — the rate is driven up without anyone claiming the Coulomb barrier itself was lowered. It also shows chapter 1’s evidence ladder at work: a simultaneous untreated control, a stated measurement error, and a mass balance the authors themselves report as incomplete.
From the source
In the optimised twenty-one-day anaerobic run, the total strontium in the closed volume fell by 5.4 per cent and the yttrium rose by 35.1 per cent, which the authors read as the transmutation of strontium-88 by a proton into yttrium-89; every element was measured by ICP mass spectrometry with a stated error of plus or minus 4 per cent or better.Section 3, Table 2 and the preceding paragraph
The same run showed potassium down 9.8 per cent and calcium up 12.0 per cent, which the authors assign to a second channel, potassium-39 plus a proton giving calcium-40.Section 3, Table 2 and the paragraph following it
The simultaneous control, run on a spatially separated installation with no pre-irradiation, consumed almost no glucose, lost weight from 1.4801 to 1.3991 grams, and closed its element balance to within the statistical error — so the effect tracks the wave treatment, not the culture medium.Section 2, final paragraph; Section 3, paragraph following Table 2
The activation step is a thirty-minute exposure of the 30 millilitre biomass concentrate to undamped thermal waves from a water-jet cavitation unit twenty centimetres away, whose fundamental frequency the authors measure in the 75 to 85 megahertz range and find to depend on air temperature, pressure and humidity; the treatment is applied only before incubation, and the transformation then proceeds for weeks with no further stimulation.Section 2, paragraphs 3 to 6; Section 4, final paragraph
The authors attribute the reactions to coherent correlated states — a coherent superposition of a particle’s vibration modes in an interatomic potential well, formed by fast pulsed deformation or periodic modulation of that well, which produces very large fluctuations in the particle’s momentum and energy and so sharply raises the tunnelling probability at room temperature — and state that in reactions stimulated this way the channels whose daughter products are radioactive are forbidden, so strontium-86 plus a proton giving radioactive yttrium-87 cannot occur.Section 2, paragraphs 5 to 7; Section 3, final paragraph; Section 4, penultimate paragraph
Neither pair of elements balances: the strontium lost does not match the yttrium gained, nor the potassium the calcium, and the authors say the shortfall most likely belongs to further transmutation channels they have not yet identified. Their named next step is to strip the impurity calcium out of the system and minimise the starting potassium, which they predict will raise the strontium conversion efficiency significantly.Section 3, final paragraph; Section 4, paragraphs 4 to 6
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https://doi.org/10.70923/001c.72592How to cite it
Alla Kornilova, Sergey Gaydamaka, Vladimir Vysotskii (2022) LENR Transmutation of Stable Sr and K Isotopes in Activated Microbiological Syntrophic Anaerobic Association doi:10.70923/001c.72592