Sentences with phrase «lived nuclide»
As an added bonus, many of the very long - lived nuclides larger than Uranium (Neptunium, Plutonium, Americium, Curium, etc.) have the same trend, and fast reactors can split and destroy these actinides as fuel rather than let them accumulate as in thermal reactors.
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Their approach involves converting radioactive material into short - lived nuclides by absorbing surplus neutrons... Read more →
Not exact matches
The 3000 or so known unstable nuclides have half - lives from fractions of a second to more than the age of the universe — and theory predicts thousands more