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Information about Protactinium-238:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:238.054497±0.000064amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):50.763664±0.060033MeV
    Binding Energy:1799.017005±0.060034MeV
    β- Decay Energy:3.460000±0.060000MeV
"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: (3-)
  • Half life: 2.3 min ( 138 sec., λ = 0.00502281 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    238
    92
    U
      (Q = 3.460 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: SF   (Q = 3.460 MeV)   Branch ratio: <2.6E-6 %
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)