If memory serves, Goldfinger intended to manipulate the gold price by making it radioactive. So, I looked up isotopes of gold to see how that would work out. It turns out that radioactive gold wouldn't be radioactive for all that long. It would decay into mercury and from there, it might decay into something else before going stable.
In other words, he would succeed in destroying a certain amount of gold, but not necessarily all of it. It may not produce the dramatic effects claimed for the movie, but it is only a movie after all.
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