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 ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Switzerland has endorsed a long sought-after technology known as “nuclear transmutation” to dramatically reduce ...

MR. ROBERT D. POTTBB, of ‘Science Service’, Washington, D.C., points out that the confirmation of the artificial breakdown of uranium announced in New York (see also NATURE, Feb. 11, p. 233) is in the ...