Nuclide reference

Cm-247 — Curium-247

Cm-247 की half-life 15.6 million years है। मुख्य decay mode: α decay → Pu-243 (100%)।

Identification

तत्व
Curium (Cm)
Atomic number Z
96
Mass number A
247
State
Radioactive

Key quantities

Half-life
15.6 million years
विशिष्ट गतिविधि
3,433,000 Bq/g
Gamma constant Γ
—
परिवहन के लिए A1 / A2 (SSR-6)
3 TBq / 0.001 TBq
D-value (НП-067-24)
0.001 TBq

Decay modes

Main gamma lines

Energy, keVYield, %
402.472
84 (Pu-243)23.06
25.2 (Pu-243)8.3
34 (Pu-243)3.5
2783.4
287.52
103.735 · X-ray line1.646
18.596 (Pu-243) · X-ray line1.382
3461.3
41.8 (Pu-243)0.7639

Includes daughter nuclides in equilibrium: Pu-243 (yield per decay of Cm-247); the emitting nuclide is in brackets. Equilibrium is reached in about 35 h.

Alpha and beta particles

RadiationEnergy, keVYield, %
α4,87071
5,26713.8
5,2125.7
4,8204.7
β⁻, E max579.4 (Pu-243)59
495.4 (Pu-243)21
537.2 (Pu-243)8.9
470.2 (Pu-243)5

For β⁻ the endpoint (maximum) energy of the spectrum is given. ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Related calculators

Reference data vs computed valuesHalf-life, gamma lines and D-value are reference data (ENDF/B-VIII.0, НП-067-24).Gamma constant Γ 1 m पर H*(10) है, ICRP-107 spectra (NIST µ_en/ρ, ICRP-74 Table A.21) से गणना की गई, equilibrium में short-lived progeny सहित (जैसे Cs-137/Ba-137m, Ra-226 series); specific activity molar mass M ≈ mass number A का उपयोग करती है।K-series X-ray energies are from NIST SRD 128 (Deslattes et al., 2003): in ENDF/B-VIII.0 they are given to 1 % and shifted by up to 0.7 keV for heavy elements. L-series lines and all yields are ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Curium-247 (Cm-247) — reference data

What is in the card

This card gathers the key data of radionuclide Cm-247 in one place: half-life, decay modes, main gamma lines, alpha and beta particle energies, gamma constant, specific activity and the D-value for source categorization. Decay and emission data are from ENDF/B-VIII.0; the D-value follows NP-067-24; the gamma constant is the ambient dose equivalent H*(10) at 1 m, computed from ICRP-107 spectra.

How to use the data

Half-life and specific activity let you recalculate the activity of a Cm-247 source to the delivery or disposal date — use the decay calculator. Gamma lines with yields identify the nuclide from a spectrum and pick the line for gamma spectrometry; the gamma constant Γ gives the dose rate at a distance, while the D-value and A1/A2 set the source category and the package type for transport.