Monday 11 September 2017

radiation - What triggers a nuclear decay?


I am not a physicist but I have been wondering about this:


I understand that the decay of a nucleus is a random event and one cannot predict exactly when it will happen for a particular nucleus. What I would like to know is what triggers this event to happen?




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