Neutrino Beam Destroys Stored Nuclear Weapons

What if a Peace War could actually happen? That’s the mind-boggling proposal being made by three Japanese physicists at KEK Laboratory and the University of Hawaii. Their 19 page report, “Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam,” has the following one sentence abstract: “We discuss the possibility of utilizing the ultra-high energy neutrino beam (about 1000 TeV) to detect and destroy the nuclear bombs wherever they are and whoever possesses them.” Such a neutrino beam could easily travel through the entire Earth on its way to its target due to the eerie properties of neutrinos and their low levels of interaction with normal matter.

Several experiments have already been planned and even performed in beaming neutrinos through the Earth from one point to another, but at nowhere near the power levels needed for nuclear weapons elimination. The researchers suggest sending a neutrino beam with an energy of 1000 TeV through the Earth to wherever the nuclear weapon exists. The beam would produce neutrons in a ‘hadron shower’ and would cause fission reactions in the plutonium or uranium in the bomb. These reactions would either melt or vaporize the bomb – or “could lead to a full explosion” instead of eliminating it. Current technology would require a 1000 km diameter accelerator consuming 50 GW of electricity, the power consumption of Great Britain. But who knows what reductions in size and power of neutrino generators could be accomplished – and ultimately, what the future might bring?