Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Friday, 25 January 2013

Joking, then to Essex (via Woking)

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Last night I took part in Guildford Bright Club . It's a kind of academic outreach activity in the form of stand-up comedy. The idea ...

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Boundary conditions, marking, music and the prize crossword.

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Hello. Here are a few disjointed things: I don't exactly intend to turn this blog in to a pastiche of any other famous physics blogs...

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Monday, 21 January 2013

I am a Material Girl

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When I was at STFC headquarters last week, I was pleased to be recognised there as someone who helps advertise UK advances in nuclear physi...

Sunday, 20 January 2013

The size of lead

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Overlap of the different quantum orbits of the extra neutrons in lead isotopes with the proton orbits Sorry to have been a bit silent...

Monday, 31 December 2012

My nuclear year

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Well, it's New Year's Eve and I've yet to post a suitably festive seasonal post to Blog of the Isotopes. This is not because I...

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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Thorium and proliferation

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I was just reading this interesting comment article in Nature about the dangers of using Thorium to make fuel for nuclear weapons, when I ...

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Hideous Kinky

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So, there's this interesting effect going on with the size of lead nuclei as you add more neutrons, whereby the radius suddenly goes up...

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