Nuclear transmutation is the conversion of one chemical element or an isotope into another chemical element. Nuclear transmutation occurs in any process...

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Sun and stars. Most nuclear reactions (fusion and fission) results in transmutation of nuclei (called also nuclear transmutation). In 1919, Ernest Rutherford...

Resistance. Kervran proposed that nuclear transmutation occurs in living organisms, which he called "biological transmutation". He made this claim after experimenting...

for gamma decay or internal conversion from a nuclear excited state, the decay is a nuclear transmutation resulting in a daughter containing a different...

originating from moderation of fast neutrons. Fission is a form of nuclear transmutation because the resulting fragments (or daughter atoms) are not the...

of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932 created a new means of nuclear transmutation. Enrico Fermi and his colleagues in Rome studied the results of...

reactors, including a small modular reactor, a liquid-metal fast/nuclear transmutation reactor, and a high-temperature hydrogen generation design. Fuel...

was an Irish nuclear physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei...

into the nuclear transmutation of high-level waste (primarily actinides, which account for most of the long-term radiotoxicity of spent nuclear fuel). An...

processes, and transformations in the nuclei of atoms, such as nuclear transmutation and nuclear properties. It is the chemistry of radioactive elements such...

philosopher's stone Mental transmutation, the transformation of a mental state Biological transmutation, the claim that nuclear transmutation occurs in living organisms...

absorbed in any nuclear transmutation, one must know the nuclear binding energies of the nuclear components involved in the transmutation. Electrons and nuclei...

Patrick Blackett made the first conclusive experiments in artificial nuclear transmutation at the Cavendish Laboratory. There, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton...

known as nuclear transmutation. This new element has an unchanged mass number A, but an atomic number Z that is increased by one. As in all nuclear decays...

The element is not changed to another element in the process (no nuclear transmutation is involved). Other more exotic decays are possible (see the first...

Technologies for Separation and Transmutation", National Academy Press, Washington D.C. 1996. Processing of Used Nuclear Fuel, World Nuclear Association PUREX Process...

waste, while re-use and transmutation are favored solutions for reducing the HLW inventory. Boundaries to recycling of spent nuclear fuel are regulatory and...

alternative disposal method, transmutation, has been demonstrated at CERN and NIIAR for technetium-99. This transmutation process bombards the technetium...

induces electron or positron emission or absorption, thus causing nuclear transmutation. The Z boson mediates the transfer of momentum, spin and energy...

in large "proton-rich" radionuclides. Positron decay results in nuclear transmutation, changing an atom of one chemical element into an atom of an element...

with a target nucleus, transmuting the target to a heavier isotope while ejecting a proton. An example is the nuclear transmutation of carbon-12 to carbon-13...

power supply (both electricity and nuclear transmutation) and allow them to run for longer. The last three nuclear power plants in Germany—Emsland, Isar...

"Fast-reactor actinoid transmutation". Atomic Energy. 74: 83. doi:10.1007/BF00750983. S2CID 95704617. Nave, R. "Light Water Nuclear Reactors". Hyperphysics...

inside out. Moreover, as the fuel's composition changes through nuclear transmutation, fuel rods are continually reshuffled within the core to optimize...

accelerator List of accelerators in particle physics Momentum compaction Nuclear transmutation Rolf Widerøe Superconducting Super Collider Chao, Alexander W; Chou...

radiation, and extremely energetic gamma (> ~20 MeV) can cause nuclear transmutation and induced radioactivity. The relevant mechanisms are neutron activation...

subcritical reactors with a spallation neutron source being used for nuclear transmutation of "legacy" waste and/or power generation. Such reactors could also...

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission or atomic bomb) or a combination...

newly formed unbound system. When considering whether a specific nuclear transmutation, a reaction or a decay, is energetically allowed, one only needs...