Wouldn't any element with that many protons/neutrons be ridiculously short lived though? The strong force isn't strong enough to keep an atom that size together without some wild additional properties.
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Not necessarily, scientists think we will hit an island of stability and eventually have high atomic weight elements that have very slow decay rates.