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Just a note - radioactive decay is is fission, since it involves a nucleus splitting apart.
by thatcherc 7y ago
Just a note - radioactive decay is is fission, since it involves a nucleus splitting apart.
- Sharlin 7y agoNo, not quite. One of the types of radioactive decay is spontaneous fission, but it's not relevant in the context of RTGs. Alpha decay (the emission of a 4He nucleus) might in principle be called "fission" but in practice is not. Beta decay involves no splitting whatsoever.