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>SAFIRE?
is that what they're calling it now? anon witnessed firsthand a demo of the Yul Brown's electrolytic device over 25 yrs ago, when it was used to transmute a sample of thorium into a mixture of scandium and copper. i STILL HAVE the samples stored away. tried for many yrs to get funding to do follow up research. all i got was dismissive rejections.
contrary to what comicbook anons suggest, this is not really applicable to the development of a weapon. it's use will be to dispose of long-lived high-level radioactive waste by safely transmuting it into non-radioactive daughter elements. it's based on what could be termed the Nuclear Zeeman Effect.
from spectroscopy, we know that excited atoms release energy thru electron transitions. however, not all possible transitions occur. because of conservation of symmetry issues, there are "allowed" and "forbidden" transitions. but when the sample is placed in an appropriately tuned MAGNETIC FIELD, the "forbidden" transitions do in fact occur. this the WELL KNOWN Zeeman effect.
what Yul Brown and his collaborators stumbled across was an analogous effect for nuclear transitions. in nuclear decay, there are the same conservation of symmetry restrictions on transitions. but by placing a sample in a properly tuned MAGNETIC field, the forbidden transitions become accessable. so for example in the demo i participated in, thorium-232, which normally can only decay by alpha emission w/ a half-life of 14,000,000,000 yrs, is excited by the magnetic field and at the same time, the normally forbidden transition to decay by spontaneous fission becomes accessible. the process completely converted a few grams of thorium into scandium and copper in about 30 minutes, with no radiation released.
inaddition to preserving the samples, i also have a video recording of the demonstration, made over 25 yrs ago. will have to seach HD on office computer for proposal i wrote back in the day.