Basic Info

n-XS summary


element
Information about Uranium-236:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:236.045562±0.000002amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):42.440627±0.001948MeV
    Binding Energy:1790.415042±0.001974MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-0.929469±0.050427MeV
"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: 0+
  • Half life: 23420000 years ( 7.38667×10+14 sec., λ = 9.38376×10-16 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    232
    90
    Th
      (Q = 4.572 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: 9.6E-8 %
    Meta state at 0.000 Mev 23420000
  • Half life: 121 ns ( 1.21×10+11 sec., λ = 5.72849×10-12 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: SF   (Q = 3 0.000 MeV)   Branch ratio: 0.013 %
    Meta state at 2.750 Mev
  • Spin: (0+) 1210000
  • Half life: 120 ns ( 1.2×10+11 sec., λ = 5.77623×10-12 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 2.750 MeV)   Branch ratio: 87.00 %
  • Mode of decay: SF   Branch ratio: 13.00 %
  • Mode of decay:
    α
    to
    232
    90
    Th
      (Q = 7.322 MeV)   Branch ratio: <10.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    236
    91
    Pa
    E.C. from
    236
    93
    Np
    α from
    240
    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)