Nuclear alchemy

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The idea of changing one element into another is almost as old as time itself. In the Middle Ages, for example, alchemists tried to turn base metals into gold. They failed, obviously, but transmutation, as the idea is known, became a reality in the last century with the advent of both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. Now physicists want to use transmutation to tackle nuclear energy's enduring problem – its waste.

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