Fiction talk:Uranium-X

A note on the science of this
Hate to break it to you but by modern understanding of nuclear physics, something cannot have a half-decay time (the proper term is "half-life") and be highly radioactive at the same time, if it did then it is somehow gaining energy from somewhere.

In real life, bismuth has a half-life comparable to Uranium-X, yet because of this very low radioactivity, it is considered stable on a human timescale.If you want something radioactive enough to be a weapon or starship fuel then it has to have a really short half-life (days or even seconds, usually an artificial element). Because the more radioactive something is, the more energy it releases and the less time it spends as an unstable element.

Unless of course, it somehow possesses a potential energy far beyond anything known to Earth physics. Also from the suggestions you are making, Mutation is a lucky side effect - the more likely side-effect of exposure is immenent death. --Monet47 - "Immortality is an elusive thing" 22:13, November 5, 2013 (UTC)