How are beta emitters manufactured? (1 Viewer)

[Dreamerish*~]

This is some confusing question.

Please answer it for me. :uhhuh:

 

[currysauce]

you don't manufacture an emmission type - but come about from nuclear reactions

e.g (this case is from a nuclear reactor)

You may bombard plutonium with a neutron to form americium, but because the new nucleus is unstable (the neutron : proton ratio is to high) it will emit a beta particle.

 

[gordo]

yeh a beta emitter is basically an element with an unstable nucleus that is emitting electrons, its not like its a machine, u just have to grab something lower than it in the periodic table and add a few neutrons (i think)

 

[Dreamerish*~]

From the Catholic Trials paper 2002:

"Describe how beta emitters, such as sodium-24, are manufactured."

I didn't think you can specifically manufacture beta-emitters, either. But there's the question.

u just have to grab something lower than it in the periodic table and add a few neutrons

And gordo, your grasp of scientific terminology is excellent.

 

[nit]

Neutron bombardment (ie neutron-induced transmutation) ought to suffice to be able to produce a beta emitter. Basically, increasing the no. of neutrons in the species would increase the Neutronroton ratio, and beta emission can be conceived of as a process of converting a neutron into a proton. Hence this coupling of reactions would be favoured. This process takes place in nuclear reactors such as HIFAR at Lucas Heights. It is the process by which commercial beta emitters such as 99-Tc and 131-I are produced.

 

[Dreamerish*~]

Neutron bombardment (ie neutron-induced transmutation) ought to suffice to be able to produce a beta emitter. Basically, increasing the no. of neutrons in the species would increase the Neutronroton ratio, and beta emission can be conceived of as a process of converting a neutron into a proton. Hence this coupling of reactions would be favoured. This process takes place in nuclear reactors such as HIFAR at Lucas Heights. It is the process by which commercial beta emitters such as 99-Tc and 131-I are produced.

My god, you just took the scattered flour crumbs of my knowledge and baked me a loaf of answers.

 

[gordo]

And gordo, your grasp of scientific terminology is excellent.

thats y i did hsc physics

 

[taxman]

Oh my god! Dreamerish didn't have the answer to something! Alert the authorities!