radioisotopes help pls (1 Viewer)

[ftist]

can someone pls help m eout with dot point 5.2.3 in the production of materials module: "describe how commercial radioisotopes are produced"... i cant find much ... theres a bit on CSU but dont i need more than that? its a bit brief...

 

[hipsta_jess]

umm...*thinks back*

isnt it something about bombarding an element (uranium i think) with neutrons or protons in a nuclear reactor to create the radioisotopes?

lol...dont take this as gospel, its almost guarenteed to be wrong

 

[Ragerunner]

Your right, but it doesn't necesarrily need to be uranium.

It is done in a cyclotron or nuclear reactor.

For that dot point, you'd probably need to use an example such as bombarding element X with element Y to get a new element.

 

[Xayma]

You have two main types:

You have bombarding atoms with nuclei of other atoms (eg Calcium-40 is sometimes used as the nucleus that is bombarded into others)

You Chuck neutrons into Uranium which then undergoes beta decay etc.

 

[xiao1985]

yes, pretty much xayma said...

option 1, use cyclotron or linear accelerator to bombard charged particles at heavy nucleus in hopin that they will fuse into a same one...

option 2 bombard heavy nucleous wif neutrons in hopin an beta decay will occur and brings Z to higher...

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

make sure u have an example for this

 

[xiao1985]

Originally posted by t-i-m-m-y
make sure u have an example for this

lolz, oh yea, forgot to mention dat...

ain't hard, just do the eqn, and add up the numbers... if they dun match, somthing's wrong... ^^

 

[ftist]

alrite...thanx ppls