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Information about Protactinium-234:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:234.043302±0.000005amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):40.335850±0.004754MeV
    Binding Energy:1777.159528±0.004765MeV
    β- Decay Energy:2.195269±0.004498MeV
"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: 4+
  • Half life: 6.70 h ( 24120 sec., λ = 2.87374×10-05 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    234
    92
    U
      (Q = 2.197 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.074 Mev
  • Spin: (0-) 6.70
  • Half life: 1.17 min ( 70.2 sec., λ = 0.00987389 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    234
    92
    U
      (Q = 2.271 MeV)   Branch ratio: 99.84 %
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 0.074 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.16 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    234
    90
    Th
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)