The WETC, based in Los Angeles, California, is a start-up innovative technology development company. Its focus is on technologies and services that will expand the use of nuclear power generation. We are committed to exploring, developing, and commercializing viable products in the following areas: Nuclear Power and Hydrogen Production, Environmental Technology and Education, Homeland Security and Defense.
Natural disasters such as the recent earthquake in Japan have shown the urgent need for safe nuclear power, including a long-term solution to the nuclear waste problem. A process, pioneered by WET could safely convert nuclear waste into high power density fuel. The process, involving a proliferation-resistant fuel cycle without uranium enrichment and plutonium isolation, would avoid keeping the gaseous fission fragments restrained in the fuel elements, an innovative strategy used to monitor and control a breed-burn reactor.
Experiments that would allow for the understanding of the properties of the vented fuel elements could be conducted at a technology demonstration unit without fissile material. The unit, in which the boron simulates absorption in U-235, could be used to study delayed-neutron emitter release from vented depleted uranium fuel, their transport and trapping. Another aspect of the unit design is a non-reactor process for low-cost production of radioactive isotopes from depleted uranium or thorium. A proper adjustment of the lithium and fertile materials can lead to the construction of a compact sub-critical assembly with a modest neutron multiplication and power. The system could provide sufficient activities of 131I for the US demand in several regional sites. In addition, non-gaseous medical isotopes such as 99Mo can be produced.
Historically, a long time before quantum mechanics, Lorentz suggested that some disturbances, like waves, could be transmitted with traveling particles through a certain medium without moving it. At that time, instead of careful analysis of the systematic errors in the Michelson experiment, some scientists chose to postulate constancy of light velocity. Mathematically, it was based on the Lorentz transformation. Since this algebraic expression equally applies to any wave motion, the true anisotropic values for the velocity of light or sound had to be used in all calculations.Many prominent physicists, including Michelson himself, have opposed this temporary solution, and the subsequent effort to politicize this issue greatly weakened the foundation of energy research. However, the Lorentz theory could nowplay an essential role in environmentally responsible energy development.