In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:48:47 -0400: Hi, [snip] >There is a limit to stability, once stability reaches that limit, there is >no way to go but toward instability. As the EMF grows in strength, the >nuclear forces become increasingly unstable. Given a sufficiently intense >EMF field, sufficient instability can be achieved to overcome the fission >limit. >The key is to produce an irresistibly strong disruptive EMF to overcome the >fission limit of the nucleus. This is the engineering challenge. > >Cheers: Axil [snip] A sufficiently strong gamma ray will sometimes cause fission in a Uranium nucleus. The gamma needs be in the ball park of 10 MeV. That's because that's approximately the energy needed to fission the nucleus, i.e. to overcome the difference in energy between the volume term and the rest.
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
