There aren’t any sources, no one has been able to turn/build/create any element other than Hydrogen and it was unstable and fell apart.
Hate to disappoint you, but this all hypothetical.
Physicists think they know how to do it yet can’t.
Do you have any idea how complex the elements you are talking about? We can’t even do it with a simple element like hydrogen we sure as hell can’t do it with something like nickel and copper.
Wrong again ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals
We've been doing this for decades. We can make Gold, pure elemental Gold, however the production costs are far greater than the gold is worth. We can do this for Paladium, Rhodium and Ruthium, as well as Silver and Gold
Nuclear fusion breaks apart big atoms, into smaller atoms. Fission builds these atoms up. We can do both - making it energy efficient has been the Holy Grail.
This man, has apparently figured out how to add the Proton from the Hydrogen to Nickel - to give us Copper. Because the early efforts at Cold Fusion (below the temperature of our Sun) have been non-repeatable (not a hoax, not a scam - not repeatable), Cold Fusion has been cursed as a joke. The earlier exercises involved using Paladium's metalic structure to force hydrogen atoms to fuse - making Helium and a heck of a lot of heat. They made hundreds of attempts to replicate this experiment, and were only successful 2-4x. You cannot use a process that only works 2% of the time.
This process claims to be 99.999% repeatable, hence the excitement. An awful lot of heat is being created and exhausted as non-radioactive super-heated steam. You can't hide that in a theros bottle. Copper is present in the unspent fuel, that was not present at the beginning of the experiment. The part that is baffling the Physists is NOT the reaction itself, not the energy output. What is baffling the hell out of everyone is the lack of Gamma radiation being generated. This is where the model is falling apart, there is expected to be far more radiation than is being measured - and that has them scratching their heads.
We cannot make any element, from sub-atomic particles. Since the only particles we can manipulate are atomic-sized. It's like disecting bacteria with a fork-lift. We have never made anyting - including Hydrogen from particles we can only detect for a couple billionths of a second in a super-collider.