The Transuranium Elements and Nuclear Energy: A Series of Lectures Presented at the University of Notre Dame on November 17, 18 and 19, 1947 |
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2He¹ 5f shell ACTINIDE actinium alpha-radioactivity American Chemical Society amount of energy amounts of plutonium atomic energy atomic numbers Berkeley carbon carnotite chain reaction chain-reacting units chemical properties chemical separation process chemists Clinton course curium cyclotron Dame discovered discovery disintegrations per minute element 94 exist field fission neutrons fission products fissionable isotope fissionable material following reaction gadolinium gram graphite half-life heat energy heaviest element important investigation iodine irradiation isolated isotope Cm242 isotope Np237 isotope U235 known large number mechanism ment metabolism Metallurgical Laboratory microgram milligram minute per milligram neptunium and plutonium nuclear chain reaction nuclear energy nuclear fission nuclear fuel nuclear reactions operation orbital electron-capturing oxidation periodic system periodic table Perlman pitchblende plant at Hanford Plutonium Project possible problems production plant protactinium quantities radiation radioactive isotopes rare earths Seaborg seven 5f electrons structure synthesis synthetic element thorium tion tissues transuranium elements University of California weighable amounts