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What is plutoniums most common isotope?
The most common plutonium isotope is plutonium 239.
What determines the nuclear stability of an isotope?
To be an isotope stable, the number of neutrons should not exceed 1.5 times than protons.
What happens to a radioisotope when it undergoes decay?
This isotope is transformed in another isotope of another element.
What is the main use of isotopes of uranium?
235U is a fissionable isotope and 238U is a fertile isotope; these isotopes are extremely important in the production of nuclear energy. Also uranium is used by the United States, United Kingdom and Russia to threaten with nuclear bombs the other countries, without nuclear weapons.
What is shot at an isotope's nucleus to trigger a nuclear chain reaction?
neutrons
What isotope number for plutonium was used in the Manhattan project?
For the nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons the isotope plutonium-239 is important.
Is plutonium 239 fissionable?
Yes, this isotope is very fissionable and is used in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
Why do nuclear reactors require a fissionable isotope?
The fissionable isotope is required for the nuclear reactor operation. The fissionable isotope when fissions it give energy due to the mass difference according to Einstein formula E = mc2
What is Thorium breeder reacter?
In this type of nuclear reactor the fertile isotope thorium-232 is transformed in the fissile isotope uranium-233 and this act as a nuclear fuel.
What energy transformation examples?
Energy transformation from a nuclear power plant
What is plutoniums most common isotope?
The most common plutonium isotope is plutonium 239.
What is nuclear uranium?
Uranium-235 is the fissile isotope
What is the transformation of uranium?
- radioactive decay - nuclear fission - nuclear reactions
What does transmutation mean?
the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form: the transmutation of the political economy of the postwar years was complete. • Physics the changing of one element into another by radioactive decay, nuclear bombardment, or similar processes. • Biology, chiefly historical the conversion or transformation of one species into another. • the supposed alchemical process of changing base metals into gold.
What determines the nuclear stability of an isotope?
To be an isotope stable, the number of neutrons should not exceed 1.5 times than protons.
What happens to a radioisotope when it undergoes decay?
This isotope is transformed in another isotope of another element.
Does nuclear radiation go away?
No, it doesn't.Wrong, it does. There are 2 types of nuclear radiation: prompt & decay.Prompt nuclear radiation occurs for a period of time while the reaction that generates it is happening. Examples are the flash of neutrons, light, x-rays, etc. when a nuclear bomb explodes as well as the sustained neutron flux as a nuclear reactor is in operation. When the reaction stops, prompt nuclear radiation goes away.Decay nuclear radiation occurs as radioactive isotopes decay to different isotopes. As the decay happens (which is a probabilistic process) the radioactive isotope is consumed. This follows an exponential function with one half of the current amount of the radioactive isotope consumed in each period of time called a halflife. While there will always be a tiny residue of the original radioactive isotope, for practical purposes it is considered to be negligible after 5 halflives have passed. When 5 halflives of the radioactive isotope decaying have passed, decay nuclear radiation is considered to have gone away for practical purposes.
