On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: 25Mg + 25Mg => 26Mg + 24Mg + 3.763 MeV > > Furthermore the energy is divided over two nuclei of almost equal mass, > hence > each gets about half (1.9 MeV), so this could be a very clean reaction. >
Because these are heavy, they will each have the full 1.9 MeV kinetic energy to be thermalized, which is desirable, but very little velocity, which is also desirable. Eric
