CORE PHYSICS

a taxonomy

Index

• radioisotopes stabilise by altering the number and/or the morph of the nucleons in their nucleus.
• The least substantial radioisotope is Deuterium-3.
• The most substantial radioisotope (terrestrially naturally occurring) is Plutonium-244.
• More substantial radioisotopes are produced synthetically.
• Empirical confirmation: partial.

• Nucleus     A complex nucleus. One or more protons and two or more neutrons strongforced together. Ferric nuclei have a neutroncore.
• Teelosphere      Axial, chaotic, or centrifugal as conditions dictate and per the structure of the nucleus.

• Primary radioisotopes     Manufactured by fusion during the stabilisation of stars.
• Secondary radioisotopes     Result from the fission of primary or secondary radioisotopes.

• Transmutation     When nucleons in the nucleus transmute from one morph to the other (beta decay).
• Decay    When nucleons are ejected from the radioisotope.
• Lightfission     When radioisotopes divide into two isotopes with the lesser isotope being a helium (alpha decay).
• Serialfission     When radioisotopes undergo a series of lightfissions interspersed with transmutations (decay chain).
• Heavyfission     When radioisotopes divide into two isotopes with the lesser isotope being more massive than a helium (spontaneous fission / nuclear fission).
• Chainreaction fission     When radioisotopes in a criticalmass heavyfission and eject neutrons (chain reaction).

• Nonfissionable radioisotopes     Can undergo transmutation or decay.
• Fissionable radioisotopes     Can undergo lightfission, serialfission, or heavyfission as conditions dictate.
• Fissile radioisotopes     Can undergo lightfission, serialfission, heavyfission, or chainreaction fission as conditions dictate.
• Transuranic radioisotopes     radioisotopes with more than 92 protons in the nucleus.