Mendeleev's periodic table is for chemists. It's chemists who care that (say) strontium behaves like calcium - and you'll care too if we end up nuking one another. The boxy schoolroom chart still rules, although they're still puttering about how best to present it. Personally I like the spirals.
The Turtle is passing along a table for physicists. This is grouped not by the periodicity of the electron-shell, but by that of the Magic Number which makes an isotope stable. It's something of a return to Mendeleev's original vision of atomic-weight.
As noted if there's a transuranic Magic Number I expect it be held together by an exotic particle, Lambda-Zero being my choice.
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