ML20126K365
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| Issue date: | 05/04/1981 |
| From: | Zech G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Hehl M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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Dear Mr. Hehl:
h"Qp 3 ,s This is in reply to your letter of April 14, 1981, to Chairman Hendrie antimatter. W i We do not know of any prospective use of antimatter to prevent a meltdown in a nuclear reactor or as a countenneasure against nuclear weapons. The interaction of antimatter with normal matter would in itself release energy.
For example, when electrons and positrons annihilate each other, energy is produced in the fans of penetrating ga.r.a rays. Such interactions also mean that antimatter cannot be stored or transmitted except by moving in electro-magnetic fields in a vacuum.
Your interest in this subject is appreciat.ed.
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l April 14, 1981 MR. JOSEPH hTNDRIE U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C. 20555 1
Dear Mr. Hendrie:
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Ihe attached article recently appeared in the Denver Post and has put into words a theory which I have pondered for years. . .even prior to the accident at Three Mile Island.
If fission, as takes places in a melt down or in the detonation of nuclear weapons, can be over-simplified and expressed as the rapid multiplication of catter by self-division, would not a safety (defense) feature, beneficial to all rankind, exist if antimatter could be harnessed and stored? When necessary, could not antiratter be then used to bctbard natter thereby neu ralizing the initial reaction? Ihe pre =ise on which I base my hypotFasis, is that every action has an opposite reacticn.
Does the possibility exist that the scientists at the European Nuclear Research Center in Geneva, Switzerland have not only developed scme-thing which may open new vistas to the understanding of the universe but perhaps save the universe frcm accidental or intentional arru. hila-tion?
Recognize, I am not a physicist, but rather a businessman who is very much aware of the need for the develepaent of safe nuclear energy. If our future uses of prirary nuclear energy is to approach thirty-five percent within the next few years, this " historical first" might be well worth watchmg.
It is not my nature to sit dcwn and write on topics of which I admittedly kncs so little but I honestly thought this article might be of interest to you.
Your cetracnts would be appreciated.
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