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Lightning… plasma… nuclear reactions… gamma rays. Many implications from this.
“Leonid Babich, an experimental physicist from the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre, wrote in a Nature commentary that the new observations represented unequivocal evidence that thunderstorms can indeed trigger photonuclear reactions.

“Enoto and colleagues’ discovery is important because it unveils a previously unknown natural source of isotopes in the atmosphere, in addition to the irradiation of Earth by cosmic rays.”
http://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-reaction-gamma-rays-thunder-lightning-physics-720512