| Prop: Unit: |
t½ Ma |
Yield % |
Q * KeV |
βγ * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99Tc | .211 | 6.1385 | 294 | β |
| 126Sn | .230 | .1084 | 4050 | βγ |
| 79Se | .295 | .0447 | 151 | β |
| 93Zr | 1.53 | 5.4575 | 91 | βγ |
| 135Cs | 2.3 | 6.9110 | 269 | β |
| 107Pd | 6.5 | 1.2499 | 33 | β |
| 129I | 15.7 | .8410 | 194 | βγ |
Tin-126 is a radioisotope of tin and one of only 7 long-lived fission products. While tin-126's halflife of 230,000 years translates to a low specific activity that limits its radioactive hazard, its shortlived decay product, antimony-126, emits high-energy gamma radiation, making external exposure to tin-126 a potential concern.
126Sn is in the middle of the mass range for fission products. Thermal reactors, which make up almost all current nuclear power plants, produce it at a very low yield (such as 0.0236% or 0.06%), since slow neutrons almost always fission 235U or 239Pu into unequal halves. Fast fission in a fast reactor or nuclear weapon, or fission of some heavy minor actinides like californium, will produce it at higher yields.
| Thermal | Fast | 14 MeV | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 232Th | not fissile | .0593±.0087 | 1.08 ± .17 |
| 233U | .233 ± .032 | .325 ± .075 | 1.79 ± .24 |
| 235U | .0594±.0052 | .098 ± .020 | 1.62 ± .49 |
| 238U | not fissile | .093 ± .020 | 1.38 ± .25 |
| 239Pu | .314 ± .049 | .209 ± .044 | secret |
| 241Pu | .362 ± .089 | .157 ± .031 | secret |
| Actinides | Halflife | Fission products | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 244Cm | 241Pu f | 250Cf | 243Cmf | 10–30 y | 137Cs | 90Sr | 85Kr | |
| 232U f | 238Pu | f is for fissile |
69–90 y | 151Sm nc➔ | ||||
| 249Cf f | 242Amf | 141–351 | No fission product has halflife 102 to 2×105 years |
|||||
| 241Am | 251Cf f | 431–898 | ||||||
| 240Pu | 229Th | 246Cm | 243Am | 5–7 ky | ||||
| 4n | 245Cmf | 250Cm | 239Pu f | 8–24 ky | ||||
| 233U f | 230Th | 231Pa | 32–160 | |||||
| 234U | 4n+3 | 211–290 | 99Tc | 126Sn | 79Se | |||
| 248Cm | 242Pu | 340–373 | Long-lived fission products | |||||
| 237Np | 4n+2 | 1–2 my | 93Zr | 135Cs nc➔ | ||||
| 236U | 4n+1 | 247Cmf | 6–23 | 107Pd | 129I | |||
| 244Pu | 80 my | >7% | >5% | >1% | >.1% | |||
| 232Th | 238U | 235U f | .7–12by | fission product yield | ||||
References
- ^ http://www-nds.iaea.org/sgnucdat/c1.htm Chain Fission Yields, IAEA
See also
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