Ionization potential is customarily associated with the work required to remove electrons from atoms, but in a series of recent papers by A. Widom and L. Larsen, electron captures are shown to occur at ionization potential. Theirs is a wet method, but this paper will show how a dry method using quasi-superconductors should achieve the same objective. The method will be applied to the transmutation of nuclear waste.

PACS numbers: 12.15.Ji, 23.20.Nx, 23.40.Bw, 24.10.Jv