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.)
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