Is it possible to use nuclear fusion and fission to create new elements? For example, if you have a

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2022-05-13

Is it possible to use nuclear fusion and fission to create new elements? For example, if you have a carbon dioxide molecule, break the bond between carbon and oxygen, and use nuclear fusion/fission to make a new element, or use those electrons, protons, and neutrons to make an element, bond it with another element, and maybe the new molecule be more useful than carbon dioxide. Not sure If I'm missing something here, because nuclear fission and fusion would solve the whole world's problems if it were really this easy. So there's probably a monetary cost, or a high-risk, or something else I'm missing.

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Brennan Frye

Brennan Frye

Beginner2022-05-14Added 20 answers

Operating a particle accelerator or a atomic research reactor is an incredibly expensive process. It would be enormously wasteful of resources and energy to "transmute" matter in this way. The products of the reactions would have almost zero value compared to the huge costs incurred in making them.

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