With fusion/fission in mind and its need for neutrons, it might make things go smother in the reaction if the nickel's isotope neutron profile was increased say to Ni62 or Ni64. That will supply 34 or 36 extra neutrons to form light elements more readily.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:04 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:54:11 -0500: > Hi, > [snip] > >In a series of independent secondary reactions, excess protons within the > >nuclei of this collection of multiple fission reaction products would then > >be converted to neutrons through electron capture after the primary fusion > >event has occurred. > > > > > You don't really need any weak force conversions in this scenario, because > the > initial heavy nucleus (e.g. Ni) already has a higher neutron:proton ratio > than > required by many light elements. (e.g. 60 Ni = 32N:28P). Many light > elements > have a 1:1 ratio, so there are 4 neutrons to spare from the Ni that can > combine > with 4 free protons to produce low mass elements with a 1:1 ratio (e.g. > 24Mg, > 28Si, 32S, 36Ar etc., all of which are stable isotopes.) > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
