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yes i remember. what's special about the assembly. i know cobalt-60's half-life is around 5 years. does that have anything to do with it?

@BobS yes i rad that the gamma knife is used for brain surgery. using colbalt-60 as the radioactive element. they surgically attach the operating table onto the patients head. the laser is attached to the operating tabel and as the gamma knife's name implys it's as accurate as a blade

whoa please define a gamma knife!

essentailly cyclotrons are used to smash one atom into another. can it be done to fuse atoms? oh and i read that cyclotrons are used to treat canncer. they shoot ionizing particles at the cancer while, avoiding non cancer tissue. if anyone knows the best way to cure cancer in terms of...

"The fission fragments of U-236* and Pu-240* (* = composite nucleus after neutron absorption) are about the same. The lower mass population shift upward by Z=1, A=2 somewhat. The complementary pairs are different." what exactly do you mean by the lower mass populatin shift upward by Z=1, A=2?

what's absorption curve? depending on the radioactive element can the particles ionize masses differently? does U-235 ionize mass differently than plutonium?

i know the key word is "recoil" but, I'm reading a nuclear fission book and it keeps bringing up "fission recoil fragments" "recoil particles" what exactly are these particls? how are they formed? are they different from other ionizing particles other than the fact that they recoil? A...

The roentgen (R, also röntgen) is a unit of measurement for exposure to ionizing radiation (such as X-ray and gamma rays), and is named after the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen. Adopted in 1928[1], 1 R is the amount of radiation required to liberate positive and negative charges of one...

im going to state what i already know about an ionizing chamber. any information i leave out or greater detail to what i already said will be appreciated. thankyou 1. an ionizing chamber is a gas-filled electricmagnetic wave detector used to measure the number of ions within a "medium" (whats...

someone told me that tritium deuterium has 47 times less mass than U-235 but, tritium's atomic mass is 3 and deuterium's is 2. myself being a caveman decided to add those together to get the atomic mass of tritium deuterium. any insight this would be appreciated

thankyou 'll try reading up more before i ask questions i remember reading somewhere that thorium had a much shorter radioactive length. what i mean is it does not take as long for thorium to stop emitting dangerous levels of radiation. or maybe it was toxicity? i just remember everybody...

fission typically uses U-235 and fusion titrium- deuterium for their reactions. which is more easily obtained and more plentiful? also I've heard of a new fission fuel called thorium which has a radioactive half-life under a 10 years and is plentiful so, any info on this stuff will be...

i'm new to nuclear power and i wanted to know some things ANY help/ insight would be appreciated. I am still in high school and I am just interested in nuclear power 1. does fusion always involve just 2 atoms? i know that fusion and fission both require huge amounts of energy so, is there no...