The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, often contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and may contain actinides that
emit alpha particles, such as uranium - 234, neptunium - 237, plutonium - 238 and americium - 241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as Cf.
When radon is in the air close to a material such as the plastic used in eyeglass lenses (allyl - diglycol - carbonate, or CR - 39) it decays,
emitting an alpha particle.
They learn more if instead
it emits an alpha particle (two protons and two neutrons) to produce a «daughter nucleus» and then that emits another alpha and so on.
If radon
emits an alpha particle, it becomes the rather toxic polonium...
Not exact matches
The TRUs are especially dangerous because they
emit the highly carcinogenic
alpha particles.
The peptide is labelled with the
alpha -
emitting radionuclide 225Actinium that generates four high - energy
alpha particles during its decay.
Also
emitted were
alpha and beta
particles, plasma, and dozens of transmuted chemical elements.
Radon is one link in the decay process which
emits radioactive radiation in the form of an
alpha particle.