Can anybody explain why you can’t do this with neutrons from a fission reactor, which exists, rather than a fusion reactor? If this guy patents it the patent will expire before there are fusion reactors in service, like the Clarke comsats and the Farnsworth TVs.
Then they wouldn’t be green!............
Good question!
It was tried but it creates a radioactive version of Au.
Pretty much worthless.
“Can anybody explain why you can’t do this with neutrons from a fission reactor, which exists, rather than a fusion reactor? “
Fusion neutrons have 14.1 MEV energies and fusion neutrons are about 2 MEV.
Feasibility is a complicated calculation involving energy dependent absorption crass-sections.
Low energy neutrons are absorbed. That won’t get you to HG-197 which decays to AU-197.