Amateur nuclear physics: neutron activation of gold

Have you ever wanted to make gold radioactive, and ultimately turn into something less valuable (say, mercury) Of course you your name is Auric Goldfinger, and if the gold in question belongs to the government Working on a much more restrained scale, this video briefly explores the production of radioactive Au198 by neutron capture on stable Au197 in a gold coin, and then we look at the gamma rays from the produced Au198 decaying to Hg198 on a highresolution germanium gamma spectrometer.