Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Iodine-137:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:136.917873±0.000030amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-76.501119±0.027771MeV
    Binding Energy:1140.807613±0.027772MeV
    β- Decay Energy:5.877460±0.026834MeV
"The 1995 update to the atomic mass evaluation" by G.Audi and A.H.Wapstra, Nuclear Physics A595 vol. 4 p.409-480, December 25, 1995.
Radioactive Decay Data:

  • Spin: (7/2+)
  • Half life: 24.5 s ( 24.5 sec., λ = 0.0282917 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    137
    54
    Xe
      (Q = 5.880 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    136
    54
    Xe
      (Q = 1.850 MeV)   Branch ratio: 6.97 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    137
    52
    Te
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    138
    52
    Te
R.R.Kinsey, et al.,The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data,paper submitted to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma_raySpectroscopy and Related Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.Data extracted from NUDAT database (Jan. 14/1999)