In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:17:19 -0700: Hi, [snip] >-----Original Message----- >From: H LV > >> The stimulated decay of 64Ni should be accompanied by neutrons and/or >> radioactivity. If it decayed directly to 62Ni this would generate detectable >> neutrons and other radioactive isotopes.
Stimulated "decay" is not a possibility. You can't "stimulate" a reaction that's isn't going to happen all by itself anyway over a long enough period, and 64Ni doesn't decay. It's quite stable. There are no exothermic decay pathways available. However that doesn't rule out fusion/fission pathways, as these add energy to the nucleus during the fusion step (where neutron absorption is also considered to be "fusion"). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
