The Japan Atomic Energy Agency has investigated a lead-bismuth eutectic cooled accelerator-driven system (ADS) to transmute minor actinides (MAs) in the transmutation cycle.
Its objectives were rooted in the transmutation of one material to another but varied depending on the time and place.
Such a process is not so much sculpture as the transmutation of power through the modification of form".
In the transmutation method, a reactor would split each atom of plutonium, in the process releasing heat that could be used to make electricity.
Then he comments on the transmutation: "My next offering is 'Zip Up Your Doodah.' O.K. What else don't you want to hear?
Iraq and Katrina come to mind, not to mention the transmutation of the Clinton surpluses into the Bush budget deficits and the collapse of the entire economy.
Although he was a firm believer in the transmutation of base metals into gold, Libavius was renowned for his vitriolic attacks against the mysticism and secretiveness of his fellow alchemists.
The most basic form of beta decay involves the transmutation of a neutron into a proton, accompanied by the emission of an electron to keep the balance of electric charge.
Perhaps one day we'll witness the transmutation of social networking into an as-yet-unimaginable kind of art — 140-character sonnets or mash-ups of media we haven't heard or seen yet.
To say that Cressida "lives happily ever after" is perhaps too harsh a redaction, but it does indicate the transmutation that occurs by the end of the novel's terse 200-odd pages.
