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From Wikipedia... radionuclide

Atom that has excess nuclear energy, making it unstable

A radionuclide is a nuclide that is unstable and known to undergo radioactive decay into a different nuclide, which may be another radionuclide or be stable. Radiation emitted by radionuclides is almost always ionizing radiation because it is energetic enough to liberate an electron from another atom.