Basic Info

Fission Yield

n-XS summary


element
Information about Ruthenium-99:

WikipediaNeutron Cross SectionsX-Ray TransitionsX-Ray Attenuation

    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:98.905939±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-87.616958±0.002002MeV
    Binding Energy:852.254366±0.002006MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-2.042574±0.006876MeV
"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:

  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 12.7%
  • Spin: 5/2+
  • Stable Isotope

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    99
    43
    Tc
    E.C. from
    99
    45
    Rh
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)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
0stable5/2+ -0.641(5) AB/DZP A280 217 (77)
g(99/101)gs=0.8922344(4) [101Ru]NZP A309 119 (82)
+0.079(4) [101Ru]AB/RBk82HFS 83 (82)/ZP A280 217 (77)
9020.5 ns3/2+ -0.284(6) TDPACPR 139 B532 (65)
-0.292(3) [99Ru]MEJDal 1253 (73)
+0.231(12) [99Ru]MEPR C13 1132 (76)/CPL 29 379 (74)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.