Hello all, I'm an amateur interested in nuclear structure. I'm interested in the (by now) age old questions of "Why is alpha radiation so much more prevalent than simple neutron or proton emission?" and "Why aren't nuclear isomers like Tantalum a lot more common or identified?" and especially...
@New Physicist. Suppose there's a short-lived fissile isotope with a much higher cross section than the currently popular U-235 and Pu-239. It would be of enormous benefit in nuclear power to be able to breed this short-lived isotope as fuel, so having a formula for the half-lives of all the...