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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 shot at an isotope's nucleus to trigger a nuclear chain reaction?
neutrons
What is isotope and how is a radioactive isotope differ?
Isotopes of a chemical element have the same number of protons and electrons but a different number of neutrons.A radioactive isotope is unstable and can emit nuclear radiations.
What isotope number for plutonium was used in the Manhattan project?
For the nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons the isotope plutonium-239 is important.
What energy transformation examples?
Energy transformation from a nuclear power plant
Is plutonium 239 fissionable?
Yes, this isotope is very fissionable and is used in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
What is the transformation of uranium?
- radioactive decay - nuclear fission - nuclear reactions
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 is nuclear uranium?
Uranium-235 is the fissile isotope
What is plutoniums most common isotope?
The most common plutonium isotope is plutonium 239.
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.
Is francium an isotope?
Francium has approx. 40 isotopes and nuclear isomers.
