Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Uranium-237:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:237.048724±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):45.386065±0.002000MeV
    Binding Energy:1795.540927±0.002026MeV
    β- Decay Energy:0.518565±0.000555MeV
"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: 1/2+
  • Half life: 6.75 days ( 583200 sec., λ = 1.18852×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    237
    93
    Np
      (Q = 0.519 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    237
    91
    Pa
    α from
    241
    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)