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Information about Neptunium-240:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:240.056169±0.000016amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):52.320918±0.015154MeV
    Binding Energy:1812.037689±0.015158MeV
    β- Decay Energy:2.199599±0.015029MeV
"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: (5+)
  • Half life: 61.9 min ( 3714 sec., λ = 0.000186631 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    240
    94
    Pu
      (Q = 2.200 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.000 Mev
  • Spin: 1(+) 61.9
  • Half life: 7.22 min ( 433.2 sec., λ = 0.00160006 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    240
    94
    Pu
      (Q = 2.200 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.89 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    240
    92
    U
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)