92-U-235
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92-uranium-235

Uranium-235 is a fuel for nuclear power plants and naval nuclear propulsion systems... also used to produce fluorescent glassware, a variety of colored glazes and wall tiles.
  • Atomic Mass: 235.0439231 +- 0.0000021 amu
  • Excess Mass: 40914.062 +- 1.970 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1783870.285 +- 1.996 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -123.716 +- 0.869 keV
"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.
  • Atomic Percent Abundance: 0.720%
  • Spin: 7/2-
  • Half life: 703800000 years
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Th-231
    • Decay energy: 4.679 MeV
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: 7.0E-9 %
  • Mode of decay: Ne
    • Branch ratio: 8E-10 %

    Meta state at 0.000 Mev
  • Spin: 1/2+
  • Half life: ~25 min
  • Mode of decay: IT to U-235

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Pa-235
    Electron capture from Np-235
    Alpha from Pu-239
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
07.0x10*8y7/2- -0.38(3) CFBLSPRL 51 1749 (83)
-0.34(3) EPRJP C16 6627 (83)
-0.46(3) ABLDFOptL 4 63 (79)
4.936(6) a Mu-XPRL 53 1888 (84)
5.5(10) CFBLSCf83Inter 128 (83)
+6.0(10) ABLDFOptL 4 63 (79)
4.55(9) a Mu-XJPJS 34 582 (73)
46<60 ps9/2- 1.87(3) a Mu-XPRL 53 1888 (84)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.