(powered by decay, not fission or fusion)
Isn’t decay a subset of fission? (Excluding things like lone protons that don’t technically have a nucleus or whatever.)
Yeah, that was sloppy of me. I meant to specify that it was spontaneous fission rather than chain reaction fission.
The term ‘fission’ is generally reserved for daughter species of vaguely similar mass. Decays are generally alpha (He-4) or beta (electron and neutrinos), maybe with some others mixed in.
Isn’t decay a subset of fission? (Excluding things like lone protons that don’t technically have a nucleus or whatever.)
Yeah, that was sloppy of me. I meant to specify that it was spontaneous fission rather than chain reaction fission.
The term ‘fission’ is generally reserved for daughter species of vaguely similar mass. Decays are generally alpha (He-4) or beta (electron and neutrinos), maybe with some others mixed in.