i've been reading a lot of interesting threads here; thanks for the link to the Nuclear Engineering forum, just started going through there
i was thinking after my last post.. fusion.. in fusion, will the resulting atom/isotope always be the exact same and posess the exact same amount of...
you guys keep me thinking, i like that :biggrin:
so in order to fission an atom/isotope into smaller products, they must have enough energy inside to do so...
i take it that's the reason why some atoms with +/- neutrons in them can still be a stable atom which we call stable...
sorry if I am a little dense, physics can get tricky for me at times it seems..
so in the example; used fuel-rods would still contain some radioactive nuclei..
if we took all of the product atoms/isotopes (and all future products) with radioactive nuclei and applied a controlled...
i see.. your explanation makes think..
on the spent rods.. i imagine that they are very highly radioactive at first but as they become 'spent' their radioactiveness decreases considerably but still remain at leat somewhat radioactive.. do i have that part right?
sooo, if i were to...
Hi,
i understand that fission breaks apart radioactive atoms into smaller 'slightly more stable' atoms.. and that this process continues until the atoms break down into stable atoms..
i have been wondering if a radioactive atom/isotope once broken down into a stable atom/isotope would...