Nuclide reference

Fe-60 — Iron-60

Fe-60 की half-life 1.5 million years है। मुख्य decay mode: β⁻ decay → Co-60m (100%)।

Identification

तत्व
Iron (Fe)
Atomic number Z
26
Mass number A
60
State
Radioactive

Key quantities

Half-life
1.5 million years
विशिष्ट गतिविधि
147,000,000 Bq/g
Gamma constant Γ
—
परिवहन के लिए A1 / A2 (SSR-6)
40 TBq / 0.2 TBq
D-value (НП-067-24)
0.06 TBq

Decay modes

  • β⁻ decay → Co-60m — 100 %

Main gamma lines

Energy, keVYield, %
6.93 (Co-60m) · X-ray line17.97
6.914 (Co-60m) · X-ray line9.162
58.603 (Co-60m)2.067
1,332.5 (Co-60m)0.24

Includes daughter nuclides in equilibrium: Co-60m (yield per decay of Fe-60); the emitting nuclide is in brackets. Equilibrium is reached in about 1.2 h.

Alpha and beta particles

RadiationEnergy, keVYield, %
β⁻, E max178.4100
1,549.7 (Co-60m)0.2299

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.

Iron-60 (Fe-60) — reference data

What is in the card

This card gathers the key data of radionuclide Fe-60 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 Fe-60 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.