Basic Info

Fission Yield


element
Information about Zirconium-99:

WikipediaNeutron Cross SectionsX-Ray TransitionsX-Ray Attenuation

    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:98.916511±0.000021amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):-77.769413±0.020026MeV
    Binding Energy:845.536235±0.020026MeV
    β- Decay Energy:4.558004±0.014982MeV
"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: 2.1 s ( 2.1 sec., λ = 0.33007 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    β-
    to
    99
    41
    Nb
      (Q = 4.558 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    β- from
    99
    39
    Y
    β- +
    1
    0
    n from
    100
    39
    Y
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
1221.07 ns3/2+ +0.42(6) IPACPR C51 2381 (95)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.