Mark Jurich <[email protected]> wrote:
> One way around this issue (and I’m sure many of us realize this) is to > enrich the Nickel partially in some isotope and do an experiment or set of > experiments. For example, let’s say one halves or slightly manipulates the > 61Ni abundance (This should drop the cost.). > You can put isotopes in, enhancing the level of one or another. But you cannot take them out, as far as I know. The people at Los Alamos or whoever isolates the monoisotopes are the only ones who can remove an isotope. The price list I saw in Japan said the source of the monoisotopic samples was a U.S. National Lab. I do not recall which one. - Jed
