Noted: Meanwhile, for the past six months researchers in Madison, Wis., have been investigating the idea of turning an electron beam loose in an ionized gas, thereby producing neutrons to direct into a pool of heavy water seeded with molybdenum-98. Some of the neutrons would merge with Mo-98 nuclei, creating Mo-99, explains Paul DeLuca Jr., the University of Wisconsinâ??Madisonâ??s provost and a codeveloper of the idea.
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