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		pjscott on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Expl... Proper description of what's going on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_decay

jevinskie on Sept 19, 2013 [–]

Thank you very much, I was under the impression that the electron was lost from the orbital cloud, not the nucleus!

Edit: Looking back at my math it was an off-by-one error in the wrong direction. :)

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