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title: "Nuclear Compute: Power, Logic, Memory, and Interconnect in One Radioactive Medium"
authors:
  - family-names: "Pollard"
    given-names: "Max Freedom"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0059-3319"
repository-code: "https://github.com/MaxFreedomPollard/nuclear-computing"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.21330486
license: CC-BY-4.0
keywords:
  - nuclear computing
  - unconventional computation
  - nuclear isomers
  - stochastic computing
  - NEEC
  - induced gamma emission
  - thorium 229
  - Ising machines
abstract: >-
  A radiation field and the nuclear populations it drives are proposed as a
  complete computational substrate: logic, memory, and interconnect at once,
  powered and clocked by a constant radioactive source. The theory reduces
  its entire feasibility to one falsifiable component, a field triggered
  nuclear release gate with gain, judged by three inequalities (leak,
  amplification, rate), evaluates that criterion against NUBASE2020 and
  ENSDF for every known isomer, demonstrates the routine gate set and a
  decay by decay digital twin in simulation, and identifies the neutron
  sector as the scale at which every keystone inequality is already
  satisfied by library data.