Vol. 52 No. 4 (2015)   New Products & Technologies
Technical Papers

Transmutation Reaction Induced by Deuterium Permeation Through Nanostructured Multi-layer Thin Film

SHIGENORI TSURUGA
KENJI MUTA
YUTAKA TANAKA
TADASHI SHIMAZU
KOJI FUJIMORI
TAKEHIKO NISHIDA

The new method of nuclear transmutation is a simple method of nuclear transmutation that uses Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.'s (MHI) original nanostructure multi-layer reactional film (hereinafter, reactional film) to transmute elements at low energy cost. So far, transmutation from cesium (Cs) to praseodymium (Pr), from barium (Ba) to samarium (Sm), from strontium (Sr) to molybdenum (Mo), etc., has been observed. If this technology is established, it is expected to contribute to society in the field of detoxification treatment of radioactive waste including the transmutation of radioactive cesium into a harmless nonradioactive element in the future.