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    Fusion Power: Breaking the Coulomb Barrier

    Just a comment, this is true for heavier elements. Lighter elements (for example carbon) like N=Z more.
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    Graduate Intermediate State in Standard Model Book - Clarify!

    Spontaneously I would say that with "as a part of an intermediate state" the mean a state like, for example, the Z in the following diagram? http://www-sldnt.slac.stanford.edu/alr/images/epem_toZ.jpg That is, it can not be the final product, but only exist for the time \hbar/(Mc^{2}) before...
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    High School Atomic BOMB but not RADIOACTIVE

    Yep. That's them all right. :smile:
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    High School Atomic BOMB but not RADIOACTIVE

    Historical note: I think it was Joliot-Curie who got the Nobel prize in 1935 for the discovery of this thing. That you can take a substance and make it radioactive by bombarding it with (in their case) alpha particles.