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The Common Properties of the "Fertile" Isotopes
Volume 156 · Number 3 · July 2007 · Pages 408-409
Technical Note
Y. Ronen
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A "fertile" isotope is defined as a long-lived isotope from which, as a result of a (n, ) reaction, we obtain a fissile isotope of a different element. It was found that most of the fertile isotopes have a 2Z - N = 38 value and that these isotopes are the most stable isotopes in their corresponding elements. It was also found that the largest number of "stable" nuclei have a 2Z - N = 38 "magic" value.
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