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Various groups have shown that the rate of alpha, beta, and electron capture decays all depend on temperature and whether they are placed in an insulating or a conducting material. That's exciting because it raises the possibility of treating radioactive waste products.Oct 27, 2009

What are the factors that affect the rate of radioactive decay?

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• Changing the Half-Life of Radioactive Substances.
• Randomness of radioactive decay.

Can you increase the rate of radioactive decay?

Electron grab The rate of this kind of decay depends on the chance of an electron straying into the nucleus and getting absorbed. So increasing the density of electrons surrounding the atomic nucleus can speed up the decay.

Does temperature affect radioactive decay rate?

Temperature can affect the rate at which some of the reactions creating a radioactive nuclei is progressing, but it cannot influence the radioactive decay process of the nuclei itself.

What determines the rate of decay?

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What causes radioactive decay?

Radioactive decay involves the spontaneous transformation of one element into another. The only way that this can happen is by changing the number of protons in the nucleus (an element is defined by its number of protons). There are a number of ways that this can happen and when it does, the atom is forever changed.

What are the causes of radioactivity?

What causes atoms to be radioactive? Atoms found in nature are either stable or unstable. An atom is stable if the forces among the particles that makeup the nucleus are balanced. An atom is unstable (radioactive) if these forces are unbalanced; if the nucleus has an excess of internal energy.

How can nuclear decay rates be altered?

The half-life of radioactive decay can also be altered by changing the state of the electrons surrounding the nucleus. In a type of radioactive decay called "electron capture", the nucleus absorbs one of the atom's electrons and combines it with a proton to make a neutron and a neutrino.

How is radioactive decay triggered?

Every atom seeks to be as stable as possible. In the case of radioactive decay, instability occurs when there is an imbalance in the number of protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus. Basically, there is too much energy inside the nucleus to hold all the nucleons together.

Does pressure affect radioactive decay?

As radioactive decay is a nuclear process it is considered to be insensitive to external factors such as pressure or chemical environment.