Nickel-59 is a long-lived cosmogenic radionuclide with a half-life of 76,000 years. Seems like a long time to wait.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:15:24 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >The penetration of the coulomb barrier by a neutron from the outside as > per > >W&L does not guaranty a LENR reaction. > > > >Many neutrons may need to be added to get some nuclear event to occur. > > > >For example, Nickel-58 is the most abundant isotope of nickel, making up > >68.077% of the natural abundance. Ni58 may require many neutrons to be > >added to that nucleus before it becomes unstable. > > By "unstable" you appear to be referring to beta decay/alpha decay. However > neither of these are necessary for the nucleus to release energy. e.g. > > 58Ni + n => 59Ni + 9 MeV. > > This results in a 59Ni nucleus in an excited state, and it soon loses the > 9 MeV > of energy in the form of gamma radiation as it decays to the ground state. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
