Nuclear transmutation of isotopes in biological systems: History, models, experiments and perspectives

ENVR 18

Vladimir Vysotskii, Radiophysical Department, Kiev National Shevchenko University, Vladimirskaya Str. 64, 01033, Kiev, Ukraine and Alla Kornilova, Moscow State University.
The issue of low-energy nuclear synthesis and transmutation of stable and radioactive isotopes in living biological cells together with the experimental investigation of these processes is discussed in detail. This report reviews our experimental findings obtained when studying the anomalous characteristics of nuclear transmutation observed in biological cells (including numerous Kervran's experiments evidencing the nuclear transmutation of chemical elements in animals and plants). This study presents the results of those experiments in which the nuclear transmutation of stable isotopes such as 55Mn+d2=57Fe, 23Na+31P=54Fe in microbiological clean cultures (Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and microbe syntrophin assemblies can be shown. This report gives evidence for the transmutation process of radioactive isotopes (including decontamination and accelerated deactivation of 137Cs reactor isotope systems) in growing microbe syntrophin assemblies. At optimal conditions, the accelerated decay was found to be 32 times faster in comparison with the natural decay (30 years)! A plausible mechanism with the focus on biological and physical aspects of the nuclear transmutation process that occurs in different isotopes in growing biological systems is suggested and discussed in detail.