Nuclear Reactions in Living Nature: The Possibility of Biological Processing and Deactivation of Liquid Radioactive Waste

The extent of contamination of the biosphere by industrial radionuclides requires the development of new deactivation methods. We have shown that one of the most optimal methods is related to the biotechnology of cleaning of territories and radioactive water, which consists in stimulating the process of nuclear transmutation of hazardous chemical elements and radioisotopes at low energy into stable and nontoxic elements and isotopes. In experiments on the disposal of radioactive cesium synthrophic associations (SA) of several thousand different types of microorganisms capable of withstanding a strong radiative forcing. A hypothesis was put forward and theoretically substantiated that the SA, which is put on the verge of survival by the absence of potassium in the nutrient medium, synthesizes barium nuclei, which is a biochemical analogue of potassium, from cesium nuclei by attaching to them the protons present in the liquid nutrient medium. It is assumed that the mechanism of nuclear transformations (transmutation) in biological systems proceeds according to the laws of quantum mechanics and nuclear physics in nanoscale nonstationary cavities of microbial cells. For protons, nanoscale cavities in growing biological cells are potential wells with dynamically changing walls that form coherent correlated states of quantum particles. Being in these states, protons are able to overcome the Coulomb barrier and enter into a nuclear reaction with cesium nuclei, as a result of which barium nuclei arise, which are required for the realization of biochemical processes in microorganisms.