Nuclear energy release from fragmentation
Nuclear Theory
2016-05-04 v4
Abstract
Nuclear energy released by splitting Uranium and Thorium isotopes into two, three, four, up to eight fragments with nearly equal size are studied. We found that the energy released come from equally splitting the U and Th nuclei into to three fragments is largest. The statistical multifragmentation model is employed to calculate the probability of different breakup channels for the excited nuclei. Weighing the the probability distributions of fragments multiplicity at different excitation energies for the U nucleus, we found that an excitation energy between 1.2 and 2 MeV/u is optimal for the U, U, Th and Th nuclei to release nuclear energy of about 0.7-0.75 MeV/u.
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@article{arxiv.1505.02239,
title = {Nuclear energy release from fragmentation},
author = {Cheng Li and S. R. Souza and M. B. Tsang and Feng-Shou Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02239},
year = {2016}
}