How is it possible to decouple nuclear power from radioactivity? By preventing nuclear reactions from taking place incoherently, i.e. in isolation of their environment — as has been the default in nuclear power technology to date.
The canonical products of most fusion and fission reactions contain radioactive isotopes or hazardous neutrons. By coherently coupling matching nuclear reactions, their reaction products can be changed and their reaction rates accelerated. The preferred combination of nuclear reactions we presently work with are deuterium-deuterium fusion reactions that drive the excitation of metal nuclei, resulting in their clean disintegration via charged particle emission.
Coupling and modifying nuclear reactions requires no extensive capital equipment or large facilities. What is key are strong computational capabilities that allow for proper “mixing and matching” of reactions that are resonant with each other (e.g. providing stable nuclei in a lattice that can readily absorb the 23.8 MeV from the DD —> He-4 transition via near-resonant nuclear excited states). To this end, we are developing computational tools to precisely identify hitherto uncharacterized excited states of