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Uranium-Plutonium Transmutation

  • deleted-account     12th Oct 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    So, several months ago in my physics class in high school, I learned that when Uranium undergoes beta decay, it turns into Plutonium. This gave me an idea about altering the behavior of the existing elements to this:

     

    URAN + NEUT = PLUT + ELEC

     

    or

     

    URAN + ELEC = PLUT

  • bowserinator     12th Oct 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    It has been suggested and will break a few saves.. so maybe a realistic mode where this reaction will happen. Yeah the URAN in TPT seems to be delpleted URAN soo....

  • boxmein     12th Oct 2014 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    A few is way underrated. Think of URAN not as real-life-uranium, rather think of it as something that converts pressure to heat. PLUT on the other side tries to be sorta like a fissile radioactive element.
  • jward212     12th Oct 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    if you change URAN's decay lots of saves will break

    and URAN 238 decays into plut + elec in a double beta decay due a prexisting neut's turning into a proton(adding to its position In the table), not needing for an extra neutron I think 

  • Michael238     13th Oct 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    @jward212 (View Post)

    Actually, uranium-238 decays by alpha decay into thorium-234. However, if U-238 captures a neutron, it becomes U-239, which then undergoes two beta decays to form plutonium.

  • jward212     13th Oct 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    I Knew about the alpha decay, and sorry wasn't tracing up all transforming neutrons:P 

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