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Subject: A new fusor application - Gamma ray laser
Date: Apr 17, 10:38 pm
Poster:

On Apr 17, 10:38 pm, wrote:

I just had this idea, as I tried to reply to the message about TWT's. Either my cut & paste failed or the Fed's didn't want me spilling the beans about the B2's secret weapon. Anyways...

Certain nuclear isotopes are metastable and can undergo stimulated emission, called the Mossbauer effect. Normaly cryogenic cooling is required. But what if the isotope is trapped in a plasma-ion lattice and laser, magneticaly or otherwise electrodynamicaly cooled?

Metastable nuclear isotopes don't have fission-class energy yields, but are still 10-100 times more powerfull than chemicals.

Gamma laser links:
http://www.utdallas.edu/research/quantum/cqeseg3.htm
http://www.physics.unh.edu/nuclear/mbl/research/graser/graser.html
http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~jjcarrol/np.html
http://www.public.usit.net/wiarda/scientific/moessback.html

Plasma crystal links:
http://ext.lanl.gov/projects/pfxi/index.html
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/ion/penning/pubs.htm
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Projects/SuFischer/thesis.html