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Rusi Taleyarkhan
Rusi P. Taleyarkhan es un miembro de la facultad del Departamento de Ingeniería Nuclear en la Universidad Purdue desde 2003. Previamente había trabajado en Laboratorio Nacional de Oak Ridge (ORNL) en Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Obtuvo su grado de Bachelor of Technology (Licenciado en tecnología) en Ingeniería mecánica del Instituto Indio de Tecnología de Madrás en 1977 y grados de maestría en ciencias y doctorado en filosofía (Ingeniería Nuclear y Ciencia) del Instituto Politécnico Rensselaer (RPI) en 1978 y 1982 respectivamente. También tiene una Maestría en Administración de Negocios del RPI. Fue juzgado culpable de mala conducta científica por "falsificación del registro de investigación" por una junta de revisión de Purdue en julio de 2008.
Trabajo de sonofusión y controversia
[editar]En 2002, mientras era un científico de último año en la ORNL, Taleyarkhan publicó un artículo sobre fusión nuclear alcanzada mediante el bombardeo de un contenedor de disolvente líquido con fuertes vibraciones ultrasónicas, un proceso conocido como sonofusión o fusión en burbujas. En teoría, las vibraciones colapsaron burbujas de gas en el disolvente, calentándolas hasta temperaturas lo suficientemente altas para fundir átomos de hidrógeno y liberar energía. Siguiendo su movimiento desde Oak Ridge hasta Purdue en 2003, Taleyarkhan publicó artículos adicionales sobre su investigación en esta área.
Otro gran número de científicos, sin embargo, no fue capaz de replicar el trabajo de Taleyarkhan, incluyendo artículos publicados en Physical Review Letters de la Universidad de Gotinga, desde la UCLA, de la Universidad de Illinois, de colegas anteriores en Oak Ridge National Labs, y un estudio financiado por la Oficina de Investigación Naval en la Universidad de California.
Los resultados de Taleyarkhan fueron según se informa repetidos por Edward Forringer de la LeTourneau University en los propios laboratorios de Tale NARRATOR (DILLY BARLOW): We have assembled a team of experts to conduct a unique experiment to test out these claims. If the result is positive then this man will be on the way to a Nobel Prize, and a dream of a shortcut to a world with unlimited cheap energy could finally be within reach. But if it fails one of the great dreams of science will surely die. NARRATOR: The small town of Oak Ridge in Tennessee has witnessed some remarkable scientific discoveries. The first atom bombs were developed here. And since then the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been home to some of the US Government's most secret nuclear research projects. Now one of its scientists Rusi Taleyarkhan claims to have found something that could be an even bigger breakthrough for mankind. It's something that could potentially liberate millions of people trapped in poverty. Save us from global warming. And transform the entire global economy. Dr RUSI TALEYARKHAN (Oak Ridge National Laboratory): It would raise the standard of living and have people be able to stand up and I guess be counted as human beings rather than be treated like dirt, the world would be a much better place, for everybody. That would be the crowning glory of my life if I can, if I can make it happen. NARRATOR: But the claimed breakthrough has been condemned by many fellow scientists. And Rusi Taleyarkhan has faced a storm of criticism. Dr RUSI TALEYARKHAN: We had to stand firm on what we believed to be right. We knew that whatever data was obtained was obtained under the best of circumstances with the best of intentions, and with whatever resources we had. And we believed the data. NARRATOR: What Rusi Taleyarkhan claims to have found is one of sciences holiest grails, nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is nature's atomic power. At the core of stars like our sun, conditions are so hot and so extreme that atoms of hydrogen are forced together until they fuse. This natural nuclear reaction gives off massive amounts of heat, li In 2002, nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan and five collaborators published the results of their acoustic cavitation experiments, also known as "sonofusion." The group comprised Taleyarkhan, JaeSeon Cho and Colin West, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Robert C. Block and Richard T. Lahey Jr., professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Robert I. Nigmatulin, a professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The group has 10 published papers in peer-reviewed journals on the topic. Taleyarkhan was born in 1953 in Dohad, a small town in the Mumbai area of India. He was awarded a scholarship from the prestigious Tata organization in India. In 1977, he moved to the United States and earned his master’s degree in business and his doctorate in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As soon as he was eligible, in 1988, he became a U.S. citizen. Taleyarkhan and his group claimed to have achieved the elusive goal of creating nuclear fusion through a process known as sonoluminescence, the process of transforming sound waves into light. Using sonoluminescence to create nuclear fusion in cavitating liquids had been theorized for decades. But Taleyarkhan and his team said they did it first, in a small glass chamber less than a foot high. Taleyarkhan is a full professor in the Purdue University School of Nuclear Engineering. When he was a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge, one of his more-interesting inventions was the technology behind variable-velocity bullets, the real-life concept depicted in the television series “Star Trek,” known by the familiar phrase "set phasers to stun." After a journalist wrote a news story about his invention, the government classified the research. Before Oak Ridge, Taleyarkhan worked for Westinghouse Electric Corp. Independent Repl Nuclear engineer and academic fraudster Rusi P. Taleyarkhan is a nuclear engineer and has been a faculty member in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University since 2003. Prior to that, he was on staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1977 and MS and PhD (Nuclear Engineering and Science) degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1978 and 1982 respectively. He also holds an MBA (Business Administration) from RPI. In 2008, he was judged guilty of research misconduct for "falsification of the research record" by a Purdue review board. In 2002, while a senior scientist at ORNL, Taleyarkhan published a paper on fusion achieved by bombarding a container of liquid solvent with strong ultrasonic vibrations, a process known as sonofusion or bubble fusion. In theory, the vibrations collapsed gas bubbles in the solvent, heating them to temperatures high enough to fuse hydrogen atoms and release energy. Following his move from Oak Ridge to Purdue in 2003, Taleyarkhan published additional papers about his research in this area. Numerous other scientists, however, were not able to replicate Taleyarkhan's work, including in published articles in Physical Review Letters from the University of Göttingen, from UCLA, from University of Illinois, from former colleagues at Oak Ridge National Labs, and a study funded by the Office of Naval Research in the University of California. Taleyarkhan's results were reportedly repeated by Edward Forringer of LeTourneau University in Taleyarkhan's own labs at Purdue in November 2006. Purdue decided at that time not to further investigate the initial narrowly defined charges of misconduct against Taleyarkhan made by other members of the Purdue
Rusi Taleyarkhan with benchtop setup used for sonofusion experiments at Purdue University Rusi Taleyarkhan
Sonofusion work and controversy