System Proposal



This simulation will find the final daughter production of element chains starting from the initial fission of U-235.

When U-235 undergoes fission, it produces lighter elements. The number of lighter elements, and what the elements are, is decided by probability. After that, these lighter elements may or may not decay into even lighter elements, depending on various factors.

The ability to examine what elements exist at each state, post-fission, could provide interesting information that could help make informed decisions on how to handle the material effects of fission.

Further, due to the innate hazards of dealing with fissionable material, and the long half-life of some of the elements, this simulation provides a utility that would be impossible to match in observation. We believe that it may be considered impractical to wait decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years for observed results.

This type of simulation, albeit a more robust version, could be employed in the following use-cases:

  1. If the product elements are hazardous, the results of this simulation would provide data which would be analyzed to determine the best means of containment. 
    In regard to containment, the data could provide some assurance of how long the containment would have to be viable before the state has changed enough to require a different solution.
  2. If the daughter elements are useful, the data this simulation provides could provide the backbone of analysis of how to extract such elements for use, and gain a proper understanding of the impact to the state by doing so.

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