2026-10-04 LANL research output repository (laro.lanl.gov, Esploro)

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The profile "Liviu Popa-Simil - Los Alamos National Laboratory" lists 3 outputs: 1. "The usage of nano-structure for direct harvesting of the nuclear particles energy as electricity". Liviu Popa-Simil, Claudiu Muntele. TMS 2008 Annual Meeting Supplemental Proceedings, Vol. 1, p. 69. Abstract: alternating conductive-insulating layers turn ionization energy "into charge accumulation by polarization", giving "a capacitor like structure charged by the moving particles and discharged electrically". Present reactors run at 200-500 W/cm3; the new system would allow "a power density to be up to 1,000 times higher". Note: the 2007 paper's conclusion gives a theoretical 5000 kW/cm3, about 10,000 times 0.5 kW/cm3. Here the factor is 1,000. This bears on claim 6. 2. "Direct production of super-grade materials in nano-particle based fuels". Popa-Simil, Muntele. TMS 2008, Vol. 3, p. 231. Recoil implantation in nano-particulate fuel for breeding and transmutation. 3. "Nano hetero nuclear fuel structure". L. Popa-Simil, I.L. Popa-Simil. Cleantech 2007, pp. 227-230 (CRC Press). Abstract: nanowires "of two different materials insulated in a thin dielectric coating"; conductors of "few tens of nm", insulators of "several nm", "offering a breakdown voltage of few milivolts"; "bimetal nanobeads insulated together and self-organizing" to raise voltage. This is a companion to the 2007 Nanotech paper and bears on claims 1, 2 and 4.

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