This later indeed proved to be possible, although it was eventually to be the first artificial nuclear transmutation reaction in 1932, demonstrated by Cockcroft and Walton, that proved the first successful test of Einstein's theory regarding mass-loss with energy-loss.
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:: : : : : : Actually, given what physicists now know about nuclear transmutation, it is highly implausible that the synthesis of precious metals ( such as chrysopoeia ) would have been feasible with equipment available to medieval scholars.
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Nuclear transmutation is under consideration as a disposal method, primarily for Tc-99 and I-129 as these both represent the greatest biohazards and have the greatest neutron capture cross sections, although transmutation is still slow compared to fission of actinides in a reactor.
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In our article CETI Patterson Power Cell, a claim that " George H . Miley has conducted research on nuclear transmutations in thin films of metals, including thin films in the Patterson Power Cell " is being cited by this source :.
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The fissile fuels that have been bred can then be " burned, " either in a conventional supercritical subcritical fission reactor, for example, a reactor using nuclear transmutation to process nuclear waste, or a reactor using the energy amplifier concept devised by Carlo Rubbia and others.
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Anaerobic digestion, geothermal power, wind power, small-scale hydropower, solar energy, biomass power, tidal power, wave power, and some forms of nuclear power ( ones which are able to " burn " nuclear waste through a process known as nuclear transmutation, such as an Integral Fast Reactor, and therefore belong in the " Green Energy " category ).
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About 75 % of the fluorine-18 activity remains in tissues and is eliminated with a half-life of 110 minutes, presumably by decaying in place to O-18 to form 18 O-glucose-6-phosphate, which is non-radioactive ( this molecule can soon be metabolized to carbon dioxide and water, after nuclear transmutation of the fluorine to oxygen ceases to prevent metabolism ).
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Fission by-products produced by the operation of commercial light water nuclear reactors ( LWRs ) are long-lived and highly radioactive, but they can be consumed using the excess neutrons in the fusion reaction along with the fissionable components in the blanket, essentially destroying them by nuclear transmutation and producing a waste product which is far safer and less of a risk for nuclear proliferation.
