Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Uranium-235:

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Uranium-235 is a fuel for nuclear power plants and naval nuclear propulsion systems... also used to produce fluorescent glassware, a variety of colored glazes and wall tiles.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:235.043923±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):40.914062±0.001970MeV
    Binding Energy:1783.870285±0.001996MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.123716±0.000869MeV
"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: 0.720%
  • Spin: 7/2-
  • Half life: 703800000 years ( 2.21979×10+16 sec., λ = 3.12259×10-17 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    231
    90
    Th
      (Q = 4.679 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: 7.0E-9 %
  • Mode of decay: Ne   Branch ratio: 8E-10 %
    Meta state at 0.000 Mev
  • Spin: 1/2+ 03800000
  • Half life: 25 min ( 1500 sec., λ = 0.000462098 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT) to
    235
    92
    U

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    235
    91
    Pa
    E.C. from
    235
    93
    Np
    α from
    239
    94
    Pu
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
07.0x10*8y7/2- -0.38(3) CFBLSPRL 51 1749 (83)
-0.34(3) EPRJP C16 6627 (83)
-0.46(3) ABLDFOptL 4 63 (79)
4.936(6) a Mu-XPRL 53 1888 (84)
5.5(10) CFBLSCf83Inter 128 (83)
+6.0(10) ABLDFOptL 4 63 (79)
4.55(9) a Mu-XJPJS 34 582 (73)
46<60 ps9/2- 1.87(3) a Mu-XPRL 53 1888 (84)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.