Choose the correct option for the following Assertion (A) and Reason (R).

Physics · Nuclear physics · radioactivity and law of decay

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Choose the correct option for the following Assertion (A) and Reason (R).

Assertion

A radioactive nucleus that has already survived for ten half-lives is not more likely to decay in the next second than an identical freshly prepared nucleus.

Reason

Radioactive decay is memoryless: for a given nuclide, the conditional decay probability per unit time remains equal to the constant decay rate λ.

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