Excuse me, sir, but your statement is mistaken. Exposing anything to radiation does not make it radioactive. One way a non-radioactive atom can be made radioactive is to insert neutrons into it's nucleus, such as occurs in a nuclear chain reaction, or in the interiors of stars. Radioactive rays and particles only affect the electron shells of neighbouring atoms, not their nuclei.
Other ways of creating radio-isotopes include the disintegration of a radioactive atomic nuclei into other radio-isotopes, or the creation of radio-active daughter isotopes during the fission of heavy elements (already radioactive). A few radio-isotopes are formed by the collision of stable nuclei with cosmic rays from outer space, but these rays do not come from radioactive substances and they are much more energetic.
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- I was always a skeptic of Global Warming
- got snow?
- Why yes, we do.
- It is in the 80's in SoCal today. (n/t)
- No wonder, you're smack dab right in the middle of the Rocky Mountain foothills
- re: Bruce Peninsula also has a nuclear power station, but then
- A pleasant reply, in which I do not use the word MORON (aside from the title)
- re: A pleasant reply,
- If the atmospheric density has decreased there is a very easy way to measure it.
- You did not address my points why should we take you seriously?, (n/t)
- I'm skeptical...
- re: A pleasant reply,
- Nuclear reactors don't release radioactive material in normal operation.
- A pleasant reply, in which I do not use the word MORON (aside from the title)
- Actually, it's a bit unusual.
- re: Bruce Peninsula also has a nuclear power station, but then
- re:Same in the Alps! (n/t)
- got snow?