On Feb. 6, Chennai:
It may be still in the realm of science fiction for many but a nanotechnology expert has claimed that green, clean, safe and cheap energy can be produced using a low energy nuclear reactor in room temperature.
“One does not need materials like uranium, plutonium or thorium or for that matter any kind of reactors,” said Prof David Nagel, research professor, micro and nano technologies, George Washington University, USA. “There will not be any radiation or radioactive waste in this mode of power generation.”
Prof Nagel was addressing students and faculty attending the tutorial school on “Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions” in IIT Madras on Saturday.
According to him, two Italian scientists, Prof Sergio Focardi and Andrea Rossi, had demonstrated a 10 KW LENR reactor at Bologna on January 14.
“But the International Patent Office rejected their application for patent because the authorities were not convinced about the feasibility of the LENR,” he said. “Scientists who have made breakthroughs in LENR are reluctant to come out in the open because of the fear that they may be deprived of their intellectual property rights.”
But he refused to set a dateline for the commercial realisation of this revolutionary reactor. “It will become a reality but I don’t know when,” said Prof Nagel.
More than 60 students and teachers drawn from all over the country attended the session were addressed by a galaxy of scientists including Michael McKubre, Dr Yashuhiro Iwamura and Prof Vladimir Vystoskii.
The next six days will see Chennai playing host to the international conference on condensed matter nuclear science.
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