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Information about Uranium-231:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:231.036289±0.000004amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):33.803128±0.004121MeV
    Binding Energy:1758.695928±0.004132MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-1.810827±0.050653MeV
"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: (5/2-)
  • Half life: 4.2 days ( 362880 sec., λ = 1.91013×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    231
    91
    Pa
      (Q = 0.360 MeV)
    Meta state at 0.000 Mev
  • Spin: 2+,5/2+) 4.2
  • Half life: 4.2 days ( 362880 sec., λ = 1.91013×10-06 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    227
    90
    Th
      (Q = 4 5.550 MeV)   Branch ratio: ~0.004 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    231
    93
    Np
    α from
    235
    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)