Infralevel radiochemical applications-II

This paper discusses several practical applications of low level nuclear radiation from natural sources, and even from a man-made source-spent nuclear fuel elements from dismantled nuclear power plant reactors. The natural sources are the ubiquitous potassium 40 in the Earth's crust and the non-weapon isotope of uranium-238. Additionally, in this research it is appropriate to include the non-nuclear processes as the various forms of luminescences and the quasi-nuclear Cerenkov luminescence, since fluorescence can be induced by nuclear radiation, as is Cerenkov radiation; chemiluminescence can be initiated by nuclear radiation, and the secondary processes of nuclear radiation caused by the Compton effect, the (Irene) Curie effect, and the unusual and unique effect of a 3He alpha-particle reacting oppositely from the beta-ray decay of 3H, can influence and produce all the known luminescences. The conclusions from the small amount of research carried out are predominantly tentative and even conjectural. The device described is being called a nuclear electrophorus since its functional properties are the same as the static electricity-producing electrophorus of the late 19th Century