Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Niobium-98:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:97.910331±0.000006amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-83.526412±0.005941MeV
    Binding Energy:842.439558±0.005942MeV
    β- Decay Energy:4.585599±0.005779MeV
"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: 1+
  • Half life: 2.86 s ( 2.86 sec., λ = 0.242359 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    98
    42
    Mo
      (Q = 4.586 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.084 Mev
  • Spin: (5+) 2.86
  • Half life: 51.3 min ( 3078 sec., λ = 0.000225194 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    98
    42
    Mo
      (Q = 4.670 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.90 %
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT) to
    98
    41
    Nb
      (Q = 0.084 MeV)   Branch ratio: <0.20 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    98
    40
    Zr
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)