nuclear transmutation

Artificially induced modification (nuclear reaction) of the constituents of certain nuclei, thus giving rise to different nuclides.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Superconducting accelerators are expected to be used in a wide variety of areas, including researching the origin of the universe by International Linear Colliders (ILC) in particle physics, analyzing the structure of proteins in medicine, and partitioning and transmuting of high-level radioactive waste using nuclear transmutation (ADS: Accelerator Driven System) in environmental and energy sciences.

ULVAC Launches High-purity Niobium Material for Superconducting Accelerators

The International Coherent Amplification Network (ICAN) sets out a new laser system composed of massive arrays of thousands of fibre lasers, for both fundamental research at laboratories such as CERN and more applied tasks such as proton therapy and nuclear transmutation.

Revolutionary laser system proposed to produce next generation LHC

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