Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Yttrium-99:

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    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:98.924635±0.000026amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-70.202280±0.024392MeV
    Binding Energy:838.751456±0.024392MeV
    β- Decay Energy:7.567133±0.013985MeV
"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: 1.470 s ( 1.47 sec., λ = 0.471529 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    99
    40
    Zr
      (Q = 7.567 MeV)
  • Mode of decay: β- +
    1
    0
    n to
    98
    40
    Zr
      (Q = 3.000 MeV)   Branch ratio: 1.90 %
    Meta state at 2.141 Mev
  • Spin: 17/2+) 1.470
  • Half life: 8.6 µs ( 8.6×10-06 sec., λ = 80598.5 s-1)
  • Mode of decay: γ (IT)  (Q = 2.142 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    99
    38
    Sr
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    100
    38
    Sr
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)