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 ...

IF detection of elements originating from artificial transmutation can be attained by chemical methods, not only will this mean a desirable checking of physical observations, but also new results may ...

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 ...

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