World’s Most Powerful Laser Beams to Zap Nuclear Waste, Cure Cancer [???]
October 27th, 2012Via: Bloomberg:
The European Union will spend about 700 million euros ($900 million) to build the world’s most powerful lasers, technology that could destroy nuclear waste and provide new cancer treatments.
The Extreme Light Infrastructure project has obtained funding for two lasers to be built in the Czech Republic and Romania, Shirin Wheeler, spokeswoman for the European Commission on regional policy, said in a phone interview. A third research center will be in Hungary.
The lasers are 10 times more powerful than any yet built and will be strong enough to create subatomic particles in a vacuum, similar to conditions that may have followed the start of the universe. Eventually, the power of the light beams could be used to deteriorate the radioactivity of nuclear waste in just a few seconds and target cancerous tumors, the projects’s Romanian coordinator Nicolae-Victor Zamfir said in an interview.
“We can’t find in nature any phenomenon with such an intense power like the one that will be generated with this laser,” Zamfir said in a phone interview from Romania. “We expect to see the first results of our research in one or two years after the centre becomes operational.”
These sillyheads are making no provision for where such lasers should be properly located: polar orbit. While people in the EU are going to be rather Not Stoked about importing nuclear waste (viz. Germany) for supposed “clean” destruction, if these things are going to make any real impact on cancer they clearly need to be in polar orbits. Step outside please, sir, the sat will be passing over in just a few moments. Targeting to assisted by the KH-[123] birds, plus a-GPS, Wi-Fi and 3G/LTE autolocation from your crackPad.