When I first began studying nuclear engineering nearly 40 years ago, I was fascinated by the fact that nuclear reactions can transmute one element to another. As years passed and the nuclear ...

THE physicist has been successfully attacking in the past year the problem which five hundred years ago the alchemist vainly pursued — the transmutation of the elements. The alchemist failed then ...

For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the hidden potential within metals themselves. While their methods never panned out, those of modern ...

The April 13 issue of C&EN contained a letter from Paul Cahill ("New Mission for Weapons Labs," page 3) and an important statement from Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), that the term "climate change" is ...

The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory announced yesterday that new research into nuclear energy generation proposes a "paradigm change" to support future reactor systems which 'eat up' used fuel ...

For centuries, great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e. lead) ...

Nuclear Transmutation Technology Group, develops elemental technology of high-power accelerators and high-power targets, aiming at future applications to nuclear transmutations of long-lived fission ...