nuclear particles

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The main source of concern here is radioactive dust, or the nuclear particles that are created by an event such as the Chernobyl accident.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2022

Researchers soon found that some of the supercharged nuclear particles would glom on to the atoms in the targets and create bigger, heavier elements.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2019

Dubbed a “superfluid” in recognition of its special properties, the material embodies fermions, atomic and nuclear particles distinguished by what is known as their half-integral spin.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2016

For example, the amount of energy in order to disassemble He into 2 protons and 2 neutrons requires 28.3 MeV of work to be done on the nuclear particles.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The nuclei of these unstable "isotopes," as they are called, are "uncomfortable" with the particular mixture of nuclear particles comprising them, and they decrease this internal stress through the process of radioactive decay.

From Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives by U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency