As you may deduce from all the above photos, the basic equipment shown is very primitive and built from spur-of-the-moment designs and junk box parts. It is nevertheless sufficient for proving that radioactive half-lives can be shortened from billions of years to a matter of hours by a quick and simple process.

Radioactive elements can be cheaply reduced to a non reactive state.
There is too much money to be made out of making mole hills into mountains!