94-Pu-240
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94-plutonium-240

  • Atomic Mass: 240.0538075 +- 0.0000021 amu
  • Excess Mass: 50121.319 +- 1.947 keV
  • Binding Energy: 1813454.935 +- 1.974 keV
  • Beta Decay Energy: B- -1378.952 +- 13.790 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: 6564 years
  • Mode of decay: Alpha to U-236
    • Decay energy: 5.256 MeV
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: 5.7E-6 %

    Meta state at 2.800 Mev
  • Spin: (0+)
  • Half life: 3.7 ns
  • Mode of decay: SF
    • Branch ratio: >0.00 %

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    Beta from Np-240
    Electron capture from Am-240
    Alpha from Cm-244
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)