Fusion's Midas Touch: Transmuting Mercury into Gold in the Nuclear Age
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We explore a provocative claim that next‑generation fusion plants could use 14.1 MeV neutrons to transmute mercury-198 into gold while breeding tritium and funding clean energy. This episode breaks down the physics of neutron-induced transmutation, the engineering hurdles of isotope separation and materials compatibility, and the economics of a multi‑product fusion platform that could couple energy with resource cleanup and industrial element synthesis.
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