I have found some producer. monoisotopic nickel is used as target to produce radioelements (copper, cobalt) of given isotope
http://www.buyisotope.com/<http://www.buyisotope.com/?gclid=CJfbvvvN17gCFa7JtAodDRYAWQ> http://www.isotope.com/cil/products/listproducts.cfm?cat_id=49 NILM-2491 NICKEL-58 METAL<http://www.isotope.com/cil/products/displayproduct.cfm?prod_id=7517&cat_id=49>(58NI, 99%+) ME Please InquireNILM-4446-100 NICKEL-60 METAL<http://www.isotope.com/cil/products/displayproduct.cfm?prod_id=7520&cat_id=49>(60NI, 99.0%) MGE Please InquireNILM-4446-250 NICKEL-60 METAL<http://www.isotope.com/cil/products/displayproduct.cfm?prod_id=11195&cat_id=49>(60Ni) MGE Please InquireNILM-4446-500 NICKEL-60 METAL<http://www.isotope.com/cil/products/displayproduct.cfm?prod_id=11196&cat_id=49>(60Ni) MGE Please InquireNILM-3778 NICKEL-61 METAL<http://www.isotope.com/cil/products/displayproduct.cfm?prod_id=7519&cat_id=49>(61NI, 92%) ME Please InquireNILM-3663 NICKEL-62 METAL<http://www.isotope.com/cil/products/displayproduct.cfm?prod_id=7518&cat_id=49>(62NI, 98%+) ME Please InquireNILM-485-20 NICKEL-64 METAL<http://www.isotope.com/cil/products/displayproduct.cfm?prod_id=7521&cat_id=49>(64NI, 95%) ME Please Inquire since their reactor if few kW with 6g of nickel, I imagine that you can observe the re-activity of metal with less than 1g or less than 100mg I have found some prices (very old, but it should have decreased since) http://books.google.fr/books?id=rEErAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=nickel+isotopes+price&source=bl&ots=Z7wf85_pfh&sig=7FRBl7k29kz-W0WOFUWg3_cYDOM&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=lub3UcWmHMW4O5fzgbgO&ved=0CEcQ6AEwATgo#v=onepage&q=nickel%20isotopes%20price&f=false Ni58 99.76% 0.35$/mg Ni60 99.07% 0.25$/mg Ni61 88.84% 13.70$/mg Ni62 96.64% 8.70$/mg Ni64 96.48% 16.10$/mg clearly affordable for a corp, 250 to 16 000$/g... just have to avoid filling the whole reactor. 2013/8/1 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote: > > Jed, is it possible that you found the cost of laboratory pure nickel >> isotopes instead of industrial grade? > > > Is there such a thing as industrial grade monoisotopic material? I do not > know of any industry that uses such things, except the people making > nuclear weapons and reactor fuel. They don't use nickel. We all know what > *they* use. > > Anyway, I think it was Jones Beene who found a recent price list. I saw > one many years ago, for various elements. I don't recall which one. I > converted the prices from yen to dollars and thought I must have > accidentally added a couple of zeros. > > - Jed > >