96-Cm-242
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96-curium-242

  • Atomic Mass: 242.0588293 +- 0.0000021 amu
  • Excess Mass: 54799.156 +- 1.984 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1823355.037 +- 2.011 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -3000.000 +- 200.000 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.
  • Spin: 0+
  • Half life: 162.8 d
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to Pu-238
    • Decay energy: 6.216 MeV
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: 6.2E-6 %
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: <=100.00 %
    • Decay energy: 0 0.000 MeV

    Meta state at 2.800 Mev
  • Half life: 180 ns
  • Mode of decay: SF
  • Mode of decay: IT to Cm-242
    • Decay energy: 2.800 MeV

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Am-242
    Electron capture from Bk-242
    Alpha from Cf-246
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)