Hot Fission Potentials

[See also topically: warm fission]

Hot fission was originally of uranium and thorium elements, and later of their adopted-parent-products, plutonium, americium, ... but there may be others among lighter elements having α-type no-β big-brother but low-α no-σ 'clean' themselves, of comparable power output up to 75% per-nucleon:--

ALPHA-BIG-BROTHER-TYPE, no β: (base-α ~ 10¹⁸yr, no σ)

• Bi-209 100% (α 10^19.3yr) + n = 4.6MeV + α 5.0MeV (but β below meta state); ?σ ~700KeV/n; easy melt 544.4°K, boil 1837°K
• W-180+182+183* 40.9% (α 10^17.0-19±yr) + n = 6.2-7.4MeV + α 1.7-1.8MeV; ?σ ~600KeV/n; 3695°K, 5828°K
• Ho-165 100% (no α) + n = 6.2MeV + α 0.2MeV (but β below meta state); ?σ ~450KeV/n; costly-rare

* (Note that Tungsten was recently reclassified as 100% α-emitter, W-180+182+183+184+186 = 100%.)

These can be compounded (as alloyed) with radionuclides to adjust for critical mass-compaction and neutron-chain rate superunity.

[under further research]

Also, High-mass metals need be taxonomized for neutron production rate vrs. neutron input energy.

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