I believe the correct answer is the second option. The type of decay that characterizes the change of nuclides to their respective daughter products would be exponential decay. This type of decay is characterized by the decrease of quantity of a material according to the equation y=ab^x.
Nuclear fusion in the sun involves hydrogen (H) atoms
combining to form helium (He). A student claims that since the atmosphere
contains hydrogen, any fusion reaction on Earth would result in an uncontrolled
chain reaction. What is wrong in the student’s reasoning is that the uncontrolled
chain reactions can only happen during nuclear fission.
