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2026-10-04 Google web search (Chrome) - Popa-Simil

Investigator, Step I, first run. Searches run in Chrome on google.com. Findings are leads, not verdicts.

Queries

  1. "Popa-Simil" nano-hetero structure direct energy conversion
  2. "Popa-Simil" patent "direct nuclear energy conversion" site:patents.google.com
  3. "Popa-Simil" "CIci" OR "direct energy conversion" experiment ion beam measured current
  4. site:laro.lanl.gov Popa-Simil
  5. "Liviu Popa-Simil" IFIN OR Bucuresti OR Magurele OR "Los Alamos" biography
  6. multilayer nanostructure "fission fragment" direct energy conversion electricity insulator conductor layers experiment
  7. Safonov "fission-electric cell" RAND OR Sandia "magnetically insulated" (thin: only the MDPI review came back)
  8. "Advanced Space Nuclear Reactors from Fiction to Reality" Popa-Simil Physics Procedia
  9. Ursu Purica "fission electric cell" Romania
  10. "LAVM LLC" Los Alamos OR "Los Alamos Academy of Sciences" Popa-Simil SBIR OR contract OR grant
  11. (Russian) Ануфриенко Чернов сверхмногослойных наноструктур прямого преобразования ядерной энергии
  12. Anufrienko Chernov "secondary electrons" OR "super-multilayer" direct conversion nuclear energy electricity

What the result lists showed (snippets only; the pages followed up have their own notes)

  • The 2007 paper is also listed by Taylor & Francis (as a 2019 CRC chapter reprint, "Cited by 2"), ResearchGate and Bohrium [web] https://www.taylorfrancis.com (result snippet).
  • TechConnect Briefs author page lists a later paper, "Super-capacitor-like Structure for Fission-Fusion Direct Nuclear Energy Conversion" (Popa-Simil L., LAOS - Los Alamos Academy of Sciences) [web] https://briefs.techconnect.org/paper_author/popa-simil-l/
  • Google Patents hits: US20100061503A1 (Pseudo-capacitor structure), US20130121449A1 (fusion/transmutation direct conversion), US8067758B2 (nano-structured shielding, with C. I. Muntele), US20120082283A1 (radiation detection with micro-nano-hetero structures). The Popa-Simil applications are cited by later patents of others: JP and CN nuclear-battery filings, FR3018946A1, CN106340684A ("quantum battery"), JP2022551664A (LENR control), US10699820B2 (3D radioisotope battery) [web] Google result snippets; see 2026-10-04-google-patents.md.
  • A 2026 AIAA paper "Meta-material based nuclear structure applications in beamed ..." cites the 2007 paper (arc.aiaa.org snippet; not opened). Author unknown from the snippet.
  • Springer chapter "Advanced Nuclear Compact Structures for Power Generation ..." (Popa-Simil; Mars book) and Springer MRS 2008 "Nanotube Potential Future in Nuclear Power" (LAVM LLC) [web] link.springer.com snippets; not opened.
  • A 2021 review "Engineered nano-materials for energy and their potential impact on actual environmental issues", Granthaalayah, DOI 10.29121/granthaalayah.v9.i11.2021.4374, says the CIci layers "form a super-capacitor, charged by nuclear energy" (snippet). Page blocked by a bot check; see sites.md.
  • LENR-CANR hosts two Popa-Simil papers (2012, 2013); see 2026-10-04-lenr-canr.md.
  • Biography snippets: "Executive Director of LAAS - Los Alamos Academy of Sciences" (expertconferences.org, 2021); "Nuclear Engineer, Physicist, Ph.D., has 30+ years experience" (Amazon author page); ScholarGPS lists affiliations "Institutul de Fizică Atomică" 1996-1997, "International Atomic Energy Agency" 1994, "Los Alamos Medical Center" 2021. ResearchGate lists earlier co-authors at the Horia Hulubei National Institute (IFIN-HH, Romania): V. Clapon, P.M. Racolta, I. Rosu. Who's Who Lifetime Achievement (Nov 2017) lists him as "President, LAVM LLC". These are self-supplied or aggregator profiles and are not checked [web] snippets only.
  • An IAEA 2012 proceedings volume (Vol. 3, 490 pp.) contains L. Popa-Simil, "Ion beam usage in environmental characterization", LAVM llc [web] iaea.org snippet.
  • A Justia patent page (US 11004666, "Portable miniaturized thermionic power cell", 2021) cites "Popa-Simil, Nano Hetero Nuclear Fuel Structure, NSTI-Nanotech 2007" [web] https://patents.justia.com/patent/11004666 (snippet).
  • The Romanian fission electric cell (FEC) record: I. Ursu (Central Institute of Physics, Bucharest-Magurele), "A potential fission electric cell for space reactors" (1988, Wiley, Int. J. Energy Research) and "Some developments in direct nuclear energy conversion: neutron flux dependence of the fission electric cell output parameters" (1985). ResearchGate snippet: "The output parameters of an experimental fission electric cell (FEC) operating in the current generator mode have been estimated..." [web] onlinelibrary.wiley.com and researchgate.net snippets; not opened.
  • Russian MDM (metal-dielectric-metal) direct-conversion line: Anufrienko, Kovalev, Kulikov, Chernov (2006); Chernov 2018 Springer, "Miniature Nanostructured Power Sources on the Basis of ..."; Stepanov et al. 2018. See 2026-10-04-nucet-pensoft.md and 2026-10-04-issp-intech-klassen.md.
  • The Russian search also returned the notice "In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 17 result(s) from this page" (Google's standard Lumen notice; the cause is not known, recorded only as observed).