Total and spontaneous fission half-lives for americium and curium nuclides

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5141701

Holden, N E

The long-lived nuclides of the americium curium elements are of interest for their use in certain safeguard applications and for nuclear reactor burnup studies in waste management. Recommended values are presented for /sup 241,242m,243/Am, and for /sup 242,243,244,245,246,247,248,250/Cm. These values result from a consistent evaluation of all these half-lives. These preliminary estimates were presented earlier. The uncertainties are provided at the 95% confidence limit for each of the recommended values. It will be noted that many of the recommended errors considerably exceed errors quoted by individual authors in their publication, by up to an order of magnitude, e.g., the total half-life of /sup 242,246,248/Cm and the spontaneous fission half-life of /sup 244/Cm. 65 refs., 18 tabs.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 5141701
• Report Number(s): BNL-NCS-36962; CONF-8508138-14; ON: DE86001745
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACTINIDE ISOTOPES
ACTINIDE NUCLEI
ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
AMERICIUM 241
AMERICIUM 242
AMERICIUM 243
AMERICIUM ISOTOPES
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
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CURIUM 243
CURIUM 244
CURIUM 245
CURIUM 246
CURIUM 247
CURIUM 248
CURIUM 250
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ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES
EVALUATED DATA
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
FISSION
FISSION ISOMERS
HALF-LIFE
HEAVY NUCLEI
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ISOMERIC NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
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ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
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SPONTANEOUS FISSION
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES