Free Pyramid Quest by Robert M. Schoch Page A

to its prior presence.
    Dunn’s model faces yet another tall hurdle: in my assessment, his mechanics is questionable, and I am not at all certain that it would work. A central process in his theory is the production of hydrogen gas in the Queen’s Chamber, a reaction fueled by chemicals placed in the so-called airshafts. These shafts, however, apparently connect neither to the exterior surface of the Great Pyramid nor, as far as we can ascertain, did they originally connect to the interior of the Queen’s Chamber (see the appendices). Rather, the shafts stopped 5 inches short of connecting to the interior of the Queen’s Chamber until Waynman Dixon discovered them in 1872; he removed the last 5 inches of stone. Dunn, however, speculates that originally there was a small hole connecting each of the shafts to the interior of the Queen’s chamber, and these holes served to meter or measure specific amounts of fluids entering the Queen’s Chamber. Even if the seemingly impossible were accomplished and chemicals were pumped into the airshafts (through the small holes that Dunn postulates were originally there, or perhaps if different, as yet undiscovered, shafts were used), I do not believe that they would mix and react exactly as Dunn requires.

NUKES IN THE OLD KINGDOM?
    In an article published in the 2001 Meta Research Bulletin, chemical engineer Erica Miller, mechanical engineer Sean Sloan, and chemical engineer Gregg Wilson agree with Christopher Dunn that the Great Pyramid was a power plant. They have their own very different idea of the type of plant it was. As they see it, the pyramid produced fuel by nuclear fission in a breeder reactor, most likely for interplanetary export to Mars.
    A breeder reactor is an extension of the kind of nuclear plant used to produce plutonium-239 for weapons. The process begins with uranium ore, which contains two primary isotopes, or forms, of uranium: slightly more than 99 percent uranium-238, and the tiny remainder uranium-235. Uranium-235 can be used to make a nuclear bomb, but extracting it from uranium ore requires so many steps that the military uses plutonium instead. In the presence of a moderating material like graphite or water, the natural fission of uranium-235 in uranium ore converts some of the uranium- 238 into plutonium-239. Further fission reactions from the plutonium-239 convert even more uranium-238 into plutonium-239, “breeding” this desired material from the uranium. Unchecked, the reaction can lead to a runaway nuclear meltdown, such as the accident that destroyed the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine in 1986. But if engineers slow the reaction with water or graphite, they can produce either bomb-grade plutonium for weapons or plutonium fuel, which lacks the explosive potential of its bomb-grade cousin but can be used as an energy source.
    Miller, Sloan, and Wilson maintain that the Great Pyramid was used in the ancient past to produce plutonium fuel. The evidence, they argue, is the monument’s peculiar and unique internal geometry. The sarcophagus in the King’s Chamber was packed with uranium ore, and the King’s Chamber itself was flooded with water pumped in from outside the pyramid through the southern airshaft. The water reflected neutrons released by fission back into the nuclear pile, and it also slowed and controlled the reaction, preventing an ancient preview of Chernobyl along the Nile. The Relieving Chambers, which sit atop the King’s Chamber, protected the structure against the explosive force of steam produced by fission in water. Water, steam, and gasses would have flowed out of the King’s Chamber and down the Grand Gallery. Radioactive waste materials, such as strontium-90 and cesium-137, were carried away from the core, while steam and gasses escaped through the northern airshaft. The Grand Gallery also served as the pathway for raising new uranium cores into the King’s Chamber and removing spent cores, probably by means of a hoist