Uranium-241

Physicists at Japan`s KEK Wako Nuclear Science Center discovered a previously unknown isotope of uranium. with atomic number 92 and mass number 241, i.e. uranium-241. In pursuit of finding next magic number nuclei after lead-82, the researchers accelerated Uranium-238 nuclei into Plutonim-198 nuclei at KEK isotope separation system. The resulting fragments contained different isotopes. This […]