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Neutron Dose Rate to Activity Calculation
This is a completely hypothetical question but say I have an unknown radioactive source inside a steel box, given the dimensions of the volumetric source and the container, the neutron dose rate 1m ...
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What is an "excited nuclear isomer"?
I have been making an excel spreadsheet of all nuclides with half-lifes 20 hours or longer. If you look on the any of Wikipedia's "Isotopes of [insert any found element here]" pages, you ...
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Creation of nuclear isomers
As I understand it, if a nucleus is excited with energy exceeding its ground state, it releases energy via gamma radiation. An example would be technitium 99m, a medical tracer with a 6 hour half life ...
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