Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Neptunium-238:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:238.050940±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):47.450729±0.001970MeV
    Binding Energy:1800.765233±0.001996MeV
    β- Decay Energy:1.292041±0.000689MeV
"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: 2+
  • Half life: 2.117 days ( 182909 sec., λ = 3.78958×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    238
    94
    Pu
      (Q = 1.292 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    α from
    242
    95
    Am
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)