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Bacteria destroy radioactivity
A totally unexpected discovery: radioactivity can be reduced by bacteria. See this link:
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/402vysotskii.html
Radioactive Cs-137 is mostly responsible for meltdowns of spent reactor fuel.
Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)
.Quote (kowalskil @ Aug. 31 2011,08:34) Bacteria destroy radioactivity A totally unexpected discovery: radioactivity can be reduced by bacteria. See this link:
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/402vysotskii.html
Radioactive Cs-137 is mostly responsible for meltdowns of spent reactor fuel.
Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)
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Why didn't they determine the remaining Cs-137 (as Cs) by mass spectrometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy?Why does the graph in the paper not show the data for the mixture with iron sulfate, phosphorus and magnesium sulfate?
This is the nuclear physics version of creationism, isn't it. Select the data that appears to support your argument, and don't even mention that which does not. It's almost certainly pseudoscientific claptrap.
I notice you have to buy their book to find out their proposed mechanisms.
Stuart
Let me know after you have bought the book Stu.
Actually I usually mark these kinds of posts as spam, but thought that the montclair.edu address should have some credibility, although on closer examination, the kowalskil name is Polish and Poland is home to many prolific spammers.
What's the story kowalskil? Are you legit, or did you hack into a university server?
Quote (t8 @ Aug. 31 2011,21:21) Let me know after you have bought the book Stu. Actually I usually mark these kinds of posts as spam, but thought that the montclair.edu address should have some credibility, although on closer examination, the kowalskil name is Polish and Poland is home to many prolific spammers.
What's the story kowalskil? Are you legit, or did you hack into a university server?
I suspect I would have to learn to read Russian in Cyrillic script in order to read their pseudoscience, so I don't think Amazon.ru will be benefiting from the conversion of New Zealand roubles to Russian ones.Kowalski has posted here before in different threads, and on other websites in a similar way: it's like post and run because he starts threads and rarely participates in further discussion, but he does not post inflammatory material in the classic manner of post and run.
I'd suggest, in the words of Douglas Adams, mostly harmless.
Stuart
You will probably be waiting a looong time for any kind of response from him in this forum. Stu gave a pretty accurate description of how he posts to this forum. I tried to to have conversation with him and it didn't garner anything productive. Good luck on getting anything productive going with him.
Quote (Stu @ Aug. 31 2011,20:12) Quote (kowalskil @ Aug. 31 2011,08:34) Bacteria destroy radioactivity A totally unexpected discovery: radioactivity can be reduced by bacteria. See this link:
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/402vysotskii.html
Radioactive Cs-137 is mostly responsible for meltdowns of spent reactor fuel.
Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)
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Why didn't they determine the remaining Cs-137 (as Cs) by mass spectrometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy?Why does the graph in the paper not show the data for the mixture with iron sulfate, phosphorus and magnesium sulfate?
This is the nuclear physics version of creationism, isn't it. Select the data that appears to support your argument, and don't even mention that which does not. It's almost certainly pseudoscientific claptrap.
I notice you have to buy their book to find out their proposed mechanisms.
Stuart
I think that their claim–bacteria destroying radioactivity–should be independently confirmed before it can be taken seriously. Philosophical speculations can wait. What they describe conflicts with everything I know in nuclear physics, which is my profession. But this does not prevent me from being open-minded.Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia).
Quote (kowalskil @ Sep. 07 2011,08:25) Quote (Stu @ Aug. 31 2011,20:12) Quote (kowalskil @ Aug. 31 2011,08:34) Bacteria destroy radioactivity A totally unexpected discovery: radioactivity can be reduced by bacteria. See this link:
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/402vysotskii.html
Radioactive Cs-137 is mostly responsible for meltdowns of spent reactor fuel.
Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)
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Why didn't they determine the remaining Cs-137 (as Cs) by mass spectrometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy?Why does the graph in the paper not show the data for the mixture with iron sulfate, phosphorus and magnesium sulfate?
This is the nuclear physics version of creationism, isn't it. Select the data that appears to support your argument, and don't even mention that which does not. It's almost certainly pseudoscientific claptrap.
I notice you have to buy their book to find out their proposed mechanisms.
Stuart
I think that their claim–bacteria destroying radioactivity–should be independently confirmed before it can be taken seriously. Philosophical speculations can wait. What they describe conflicts with everything I know in nuclear physics, which is my profession. But this does not prevent me from being open-minded.Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia).
P.S.Stu also asked “Why didn't they determine the remaining Cs-137 (as Cs) by mass spectrometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy?”
Because detecting Cs-137 by its radioactivity (it's gamma rays peak at the energy of 660 keV) is orders of magnitude more efficient than by mass spectroscopy.
By the way, several years after Chernoble someone brought me dry mushrooms from Poland. I had no trouble in detecting presence of Cs-137 gamma rays, using a common laboratory detector–it was the NaI crystal. That amount would not be detectable by using a mass spectrometer.
Thank you for asking good questions.
.Quote (kowalskil @ Sep. 07 2011,08:41) Quote (kowalskil @ Sep. 07 2011,08:25) Quote (Stu @ Aug. 31 2011,20:12) Quote (kowalskil @ Aug. 31 2011,08:34) Bacteria destroy radioactivity A totally unexpected discovery: radioactivity can be reduced by bacteria. See this link:
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/402vysotskii.html
Radioactive Cs-137 is mostly responsible for meltdowns of spent reactor fuel.
Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)
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Why didn't they determine the remaining Cs-137 (as Cs) by mass spectrometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy?Why does the graph in the paper not show the data for the mixture with iron sulfate, phosphorus and magnesium sulfate?
This is the nuclear physics version of creationism, isn't it. Select the data that appears to support your argument, and don't even mention that which does not. It's almost certainly pseudoscientific claptrap.
I notice you have to buy their book to find out their proposed mechanisms.
Stuart
I think that their claim–bacteria destroying radioactivity–should be independently confirmed before it can be taken seriously. Philosophical speculations can wait. What they describe conflicts with everything I know in nuclear physics, which is my profession. But this does not prevent me from being open-minded.Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia).
P.S.Stu also asked “Why didn't they determine the remaining Cs-137 (as Cs) by mass spectrometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy?”
Because detecting Cs-137 by its radioactivity (it's gamma rays peak at the energy of 660 keV) is orders of magnitude more efficient than by mass spectroscopy.
By the way, several years after Chernoble someone brought me dry mushrooms from Poland. I had no trouble in detecting presence of Cs-137 gamma rays, using a common laboratory detector–it was the NaI crystal. That amount would not be detectable by using a mass spectrometer.
Thank you for asking good questions.
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P.P.S.
Another qualification (of general interest). The dry mushroom mentioned in the previous post were collected in Poland, about 600 miles west from Chernoble (in the USSR, where a terrible nuclear accident took place). After discovering the Cs-137 in Polish mushrooms I examined dry mushrooms collected in New Jersey, where I live. They also contained a lot of Cs-137, about 1/3 as much as those from Poland (per gram).The whole world was contaminated with Cs-137 (and other fission products) during 1960, when super-bombs were tested in the atmosphere. The half-life of Cs-137 is 30 years. It will be around for very long times. But do not worry, the level of radiation is much lower than from the sun, of from banana we eat.
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