Nuclide reference

Pu-244 — Plutonium-244

Pu-244 की half-life 81.1 million years है। मुख्य decay mode: α decay → U-240 (99.88%)।

Identification

तत्व
Plutonium (Pu)
Atomic number Z
94
Mass number A
244
State
Radioactive

Key quantities

Half-life
81.1 million years
विशिष्ट गतिविधि
668,400 Bq/g
Gamma constant Γ
—
परिवहन के लिए A1 / A2 (SSR-6)
0.4 TBq / 0.001 TBq
D-value (НП-067-24)
0.0003 TBq

Decay modes

  • α decay → U-240 — 99.88 %
  • spontaneous fission — 0.125 %

Main gamma lines

Energy, keVYield, %
554.6 (Np-240m)20.85
18.1431 (Np-240m) · X-ray line13.29
14.2742 (Np-240m) · X-ray line11.93
597.4 (Np-240m)11.67
1,496.9 (Np-240m)1.327
817.89 (Np-240m)1.277
938.02 (Np-240m)1.207
758.61 (Np-240m)1.177
263.37 (Np-240m)1.137
44.1 (U-240)1.049

Includes daughter nuclides in equilibrium: U-240, Np-240m (yield per decay of Pu-244); the emitting nuclide is in brackets. Equilibrium is reached in about 4.1 d.

Alpha and beta particles

RadiationEnergy, keVYield, %
α4,58980.5
4,54619.38
β⁻, E max380 (U-240)74.91
335.83 (U-240)24.97
2,165.2 (Np-240m)41.9
1,610.6 (Np-240m)30.92

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.

Plutonium-244 (Pu-244) — reference data

What is in the card

This card gathers the key data of radionuclide Pu-244 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 Pu-244 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.