Transmutation of Elements

Polyneutron Theory of Transmutation

Polyneutron theory postulates that large clusters of neutrons are bound and stable against strong decay and that their interactions with ordinary nuclei are responsible for a new class of low temperature nuclear phenomena. It is postulated that these clusters, also termed polyneutrons or neutron isotopes, grow to include hundreds of neutrons in chain reactions fueled by isotopes such as H, O an...

Transmutation of Fission Products

Studies of transmutation of long-lived fission products by accelerator and by fission reactor at PNC are described. Four transmutation methods by accelerators are compared in terms of transmutation energy and transmutation rate. A super-powered electron linear accelerator which could transmute a large quantity of fission products has been studied and development of PNC test linac in this line i...

Transmutation of a heme protein.

Residue Asn57 of bovine liver cytochrome b5 has been replaced with a cysteine residue, and the resulting variant has been isolated from recombinant Escherichia coli as a mixture of four major species: A, BI, BII, and C. A combination of electronic spectroscopy, 1H NMR spectroscopy, resonance Raman spectroscopy, electrospray mass spectrometry, and direct electrochemistry has been used to charact...

Remarks on Quantum Transmutation

It is shown how formulas of the author for general operator transmutation can be adapted to a quantum group context

Minor Actinide Transmutation