Oak Ridge Chart of Nuclides
Uranium238
Professor Henry S. Gurr

I am pointing at the Oak Ridge Chart of Nuclides. This chart shows all the different atom centers of every chemical element. Uranium(238) is just above my finger. Uranium(238), created in super-nova fires, has a half life that is a large fraction of the age of the Universe. Whereas other radioactive nuclides created in super-nova explosions are long since gone, Uranium(238) is still here to tell the story of its creation. U(238) has a daughter product Radium(226). I spent fifteen years of my life eliminating these (and other) radioactive particles (nuclei) from the University of California-Irvine Neutrino Detector. For information on my work with the UCI Neutrino Detector, read the background section of my home page.

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