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Most of the world's currently-operational nuclear reactors were built in the 1970s and 80s and with an expected lifespan of 30–40 years are coming to the end of their predicted lifetime. Many will need to be decommissioned in the not-too-distant future. Using freely-available data from …
The semi-empirical mass formula parameters used in the previous post were taken from the text book of J. W. Rohlf (1994) . Another, older set of parameters are presented in the compilation of A. H. Wapstra (1958) . Below we compare each with the experimental …
The binding energy of a nucleus is the energy that would be required to split apart each of its constituent protons and neutrons (nucleons). This energy is due to the forces that hold the nucleus together, which may be thought of as a balance between …
