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Nuclear transmutation occurs in any process where the number of protons or neutrons in the nucleus of an atom is changed. A transmutation can be achieved either by nuclear reactions (in which an outside particle reacts with a nucleus) or by radioactive decay, where no outside cause is needed.
(d,n) reactions are used to generate energetic neutrons. The strangeness exchange reaction (K, π) has been used to study hypernuclei. The reaction 14 N(α,p) 17 O performed by Rutherford in 1917 (reported 1919), is generally regarded as the first nuclear transmutation experiment.
However, while the principal feasibility of some of those reactions has been demonstrated at laboratory scale, there is, as of 2024, no large scale deliberate transmutation of fission products anywhere in the world, and the upcoming MYRRHA research project into transmutation is mostly focused on transuranic waste.
Such transmutation is possible in particle accelerators or nuclear reactors, although the production cost is estimated to be a trillion times the market price of gold. Since there is only one stable gold isotope, 197 Au, nuclear reactions must create this isotope in order to produce usable gold. [4]
By definition, voids are under vacuum, but may became gas-filled in the case of alpha-particle radiation (helium) or if the gas is produced as a result of transmutation reactions. The void is then called a bubble, and leads to dimensional instability (neutron-induced swelling) of parts subject to radiation.
18 F, fluorine-18 can be made by the reaction of neon with deuterons, 20 Ne reacts in a (d, 4 He) reaction. It is normal to use neon gas with a trace of stable fluorine ( 19 F 2 ). The 19 F 2 acts as a carrier which increases the yield of radioactivity from the cyclotron target by reducing the amount of radioactivity lost by absorption on surfaces.
This was the first observation of a nuclear reaction, that is, a reaction in which particles from one decay are used to transform another atomic nucleus. [30] A fully artificial nuclear reaction and nuclear transmutation was achieved in April 1932 by Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft , who used artificially accelerated protons against lithium ...
The Oppenheimer–Phillips process or strip reaction is a type of deuteron-induced nuclear reaction.In this process the neutron half of an energetic deuteron (a stable isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron) fuses with a target nucleus, transmuting the target to a heavier isotope while ejecting a proton.