alloys of neptunium with uranium, americium, plutonium, zirconium, and iron, so as to recycle long-lived waste isotopes such as neptunium-237 into shorter-lived...
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Plutonium (section Isotopes and nucleosynthesis)
neutron irradiation of neptunium-237. Plutonium isotopes undergo radioactive decay, which produces decay heat. Different isotopes produce different amounts...
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Enriched uranium (category Isotope separation)
increased through the process of isotope separation. Naturally occurring uranium is composed of three major isotopes: uranium-238 (238U with 99.2732–99...
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Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope 235U than natural...
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Praseodymium (section Isotopes)
isotopes lighter than 141Pr is positron emission or electron capture to isotopes of cerium, while that of heavier isotopes is beta decay to isotopes of...
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call these elements with complete chemical identity "isotopes". The problem of placing isotopes in the periodic table had arisen beginning in 1900 when...
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the isotope nickel-63, held in a module the size of a very small coin. As it's consumed, the nickel-63 decays into stable, non-radioactive isotopes of...
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Palmer, M. Rand,, Update on the Chemical Thermodynamics of Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium, Americium and Technetium, AEN-OCDE, North- Holland,, Elsevier...
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