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LiberaBlueDem

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7. Transmutation

Reply to NNadir (Reply #6)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 12:04 AM

Apr 2024

I have read where reactors were being used to make gold >>> transmutated

I guess plutonium in very controlled situations can be transmutated into who knows what but any researchers would be susceptible to its pollution. How many years does it take plutonium to kill? We know it can be deadly for a long, long time.

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I have been waiting for about 20 years for this paper to appear. [View all] NNadir Apr 2024 OP

Let me see and let me think. Antartica is miles high in ice. GreenWave Apr 2024 #1

FFTF greblach Apr 2024 #2

Still wonder how waste that needs thousands of years to degrade are going to be protected ... marble falls Apr 2024 #3

And yet, people focusing on so called "nuclear waste" with insipid reference to time are spectacularly disinterested... NNadir Apr 2024 #4

Plutonium is some weird stuff LiberaBlueDem Apr 2024 #5

We desperately need as much plutonium as we can get. NNadir Apr 2024 #6

Transmutation LiberaBlueDem Apr 2024 #7

The rumor, the disingenuous claim, that plutonium is "deadly" should be supported by data. NNadir Apr 2024 #8