A search of current nuclear data libraries has identified some inconsistencies in reported gamma line intensities for this decay chain. This paper is a report on the work carried out at BNFL and MAFF to confirm
A very long time ago when the Earth was still very young, the ratio of fissile U-235 to fertile U-238 was sufficiently high that nuclear fission would spontaneously commence, as happened at what is now the Oklo region of Gabon. Although natural decay of U-235 means that this is unlikely...
On 2 December 1942, as part of the Manhattan Project, another team led by Enrico Fermi was able to initiate the first artificial self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, Chicago Pile-1. Working in a lab below the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, the team created the condit...
To understand uranium, it's important to understand radioactivity. Uranium is naturally radioactive: Its nucleus is unstable, so the element is in a constant state of decay, seeking a more stable arrangement. In fact, uranium was the element that made the discovery of radioactivity possible. In...
Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4.468 billion years over which time it decays into stable lead-206. This process can be used to date ancient rocks by comparing the ratio of the isotope lead-206, the last isotope in the uranium decay series, to the level of uranium-238 in the sample of...
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239Pu is produced from the capture of epithermal neutrons in the resonances of 238U with subsequent β-decay. Other Pu isotopes are also formed, but their contribution to the overall fission yield is small. Fig. 1 presents measurements of Pu across a pellet cross-section for a thermal reactor...
Plutonium is readily identified by the fast and moderated neutron emission; whereas, HEU are identified by their emitted gamma spectrum, and in particular the 1MeV gamma of U-238, and the 2.614MeV gamma, which is emitted in the decay chain of U-232. The time pattern of neutron and gamma...
Uranium-235 undergoes spontaneous fission during radioactive decay; however, no standard equation can represent this reaction as its results are quite unpredictable. Uranium-235 Decay Chain The decay chain of this radioactive metal is known as the Actinium Series with thorium-231 being the next isot...
uranium 235- a uranium isotope with mass number 235; capable of sustaining chain reactions uranium 238- the commonest isotope of uranium; it is not fissionable but when irradiated with neutrons it produces fissionable plutonium 239 pitchblende,uraninite- a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and ...