User:LeoI07/Nuclear reaction ideas

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Nuclear fusion
These fusion reaction ideas will most likely look stupid to anyone who knows how many neutrons will be evaporated from those reactions.

Californium + Titanium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 3 n?

252Cf has a pretty short half-life, but that half-life is still longer than that of 249Bk, so it shouldn't be out of the question to use it as a target.

Curium + Chromium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

250Cm has a half-life of 9,000 years, so I don't understand why it hasn't really been used as a target before.

Plutonium + Iron
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Like 238U, 244Pu is the both the most massive viable isotope and longest-lived isotope of its kind. 60Fe is likely too rare to use as a projectile, so a reaction with 58Fe would be more feasible:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Uranium + Nickel
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 2 n?
 * + → * →  + 4 n?
 * + → * →  + 5 n?

Depleted uranium would be easy to get for the target; 64Ni should be quite the viable projectile, especially considering that the mole fraction of it in natural nickel is more than that of 48Ca in natural calcium.

Thorium + Zinc

 * + → * →  + 4 n?

70Zn should be doable for the projectile, again because it's more prevalent in zinc than 48Ca is in calcium.

Lead + Strontium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + n?

Like 60Fe, 90Sr is most likely too rare to use as a projectile, so it would have to be bumped down to 88Sr:
 * + → * →  + n?

Unbibium (122Ubb)
306Ubb is predicted to be the next isotope after 208Pb to be a spherical, doubly magic nucleus, so these reactions will be focused on synthesizing that isotope or at least a more neutron-rich one.

Curium + Iron
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

You could bump the iron isotope down to 58Fe to make it more feasible:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Plutonium + Nickel
Here's the ideal reaction, and the only one that gives a compound nucleus where A > 306:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Uranium + Zinc
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 2 n?
 * + → * →  + 4 n?
 * + → * →  + 5 n?

Thorium + Germanium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

76Ge makes up nearly 8% of germanium. The only downside of this reaction would be the low yield.

Lead + Zirconium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + n?

Plenty of 96Zr to go around, no problem there.

Unbiquadium (124Ubq)
308Ubq would have a magic number of neutrons (N = 184) and therefore be more stable, while 310Ubq could alpha decay into 306Ubb as an alternate method of producing that isotope if it can't be made directly:

Californium + Iron
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 3 n?

You can bump the californium isotope down to 251Cf, the most stable one, to synthesize 308Ubq:
 * + → * →  + 3 n?

Curium + Nickel
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

You can bump the curium isotope down to 248Cm to synthesize 308Ubq:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Or you can bump the nickel isotope down to the more abundant 62Ni for a higher yield:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Plutonium + Zinc
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

To synthesize 308Ubq, you can bump the zinc isotope down to the much more common 68Zn:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

This also increases the yield.

Uranium + Germanium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 2 n?
 * + → * →  + 4 n?
 * + → * →  + 5 n?

Thorium + Selenium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

82Se is way more abundant in natural selenium than 48Ca is in natural calcium. That, along with the prevalence of 232Th, make this reaction a great choice.

You can bump the selenium isotope down to 80Se, the most abundant one, to synthesize 308Ubq:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Californium + Nickel
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 3 n?

Curium + Zinc
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Plutonium + Germanium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Uranium + Selenium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 2 n?
 * + → * →  + 4 n?
 * + → * →  + 5 n?

Thorium + Krypton

 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Californium + Zinc
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 3 n?

Curium + Germanium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Plutonium + Selenium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Uranium + Krypton
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 2 n?
 * + → * →  + 4 n?
 * + → * →  + 5 n?

Thorium + Strontium

 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Like 60Fe, 90Sr is most likely too rare to use as a projectile, so it would have to be bumped down to 88Sr:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Californium + Germanium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 3 n?

Curium + Selenium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Plutonium + Krypton
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?

Uranium + Strontium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 2 n?
 * + → * →  + 4 n?
 * + → * →  + 5 n?

Using 88Sr instead:
 * + → * →  + 2 n?
 * + → * →  + 4 n?
 * + → * →  + 5 n?

Thorium + Zirconium
Here's the ideal reaction:
 * + → * →  + 4 n?