{"id":21248,"date":"2025-08-12T20:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21248"},"modified":"2025-08-12T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:12:42","slug":"2025-08-12-how-to-turn-mercury-into-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21248","title":{"rendered":"2025-08-12 How To Turn Mercury Into Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marathon Fusion will add mercury-198 to the blanket in the fusion reactor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;When a fast neutron hits a mercury-198 atom it absorbs it and releases two more neutrons in its place in an N-2N Reaction, producing mercury-197.\u00a0\u00a0Mercury-197 is an unstable isotope that undergoes Beta minus decay.\u00a0 Over roughly 64 hours one of its neutrons transforms into a proton, releasing an electron and antineutrino, and turning the atom into gold-197, the stable form of gold found in nature.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; simulations show that a 1 Gigawatt fusion plant could crank out 5000 kilograms of gold per year, potentially doubling the plant&#8217;s revenue.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scientists Turn Mercury Into Gold\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKuvUZSL5gE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marathon Fusion will add mercury-198 to the blanket in the fusion reactor. &#8220;&#8221;When a fast neutron hits a mercury-198 atom it absorbs it and releases two more neutrons in its place in an N-2N Reaction, producing mercury-197.\u00a0\u00a0Mercury-197 is an unstable isotope that undergoes Beta minus decay.\u00a0 Over roughly 64 hours one of its neutrons transforms<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=21248\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3419,20,826,1858,825,1254,1284],"tags":[4410,4408,3244,4411,4409],"class_list":["post-21248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-other-off-topic","category-physics","category-research","category-science","category-thermonuclear-fusion-nuclear-power","category-video-books-documents-literature","tag-beta-minus-decay","tag-fusion-reactor","tag-gold","tag-marathon-fusion","tag-mercury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21249,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21248\/revisions\/21249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}