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Isotopes of berkelium

Berkelium (97Bk) is an artificial element, and thus a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all artificial elements, it has no stable isotopes. The first isotope to be synthesized was 243Bk in 1949. There are twenty known radioisotopes, from 233Bk and 233Bk to 253Bk (except 235Bk and 237Bk), and six nuclear isomers. The longest-lived isotope is 247Bk with a half-life of 1,380 years.

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List of isotopes

Nuclide1ZNIsotopic mass (Da)234Half-life5Decaymode67DaughterisotopeSpin andparity8910
Excitation energy11
233Bk97136233.05665(25)#40(30) sα229Am3/2-#
β+?233Cm
234Bk97137234.05732(16)#20(5) sα (>80%)230Am3-#
β+ (<20%)234Cm
β+, SF?12(various)
236Bk97139236.05748(39)#26(10) sβ+ (99.96%)236Cm4+#
β+, SF (0.04%)(various)
α?232Am
238Bk97141238.05820(28)#2.40(8) minβ+ (99.95%)238Cm1#
β+, SF (0.048%)(various)
α?234Am
239Bk97142239.05824(22)#100# sβ+239Cm(7/2+)
α?235Am
SF?(various)
240Bk97143240.05976(16)#4.8(8) minβ+?240Cm7−#
β+, SF (0.0020%)(various)
α?236Am
241Bk97144241.06010(18)#4.6(4) minβ+?241Cm(7/2+)
α?237Am
242Bk97145242.06198(22)#7.0(13) minβ+242Cm3+#
β+, SF (<3×10−5%)(various)
α?238Am
242mBk2000(200)# keV600(100) nsSF(various)
IT?242Bk
243Bk97146243.0630059(49)4.6(2) hβ+ (99.85%)243Cm3/2−
α (.15%)239Am
244Bk97147244.065179(15)5.02(3) hβ+?244Cm4−
α (0.006%)240Am
244mBk1500(500)# keV820(60) nsSF(various)
IT?244Bk
245Bk97148245.0663598(19)4.95(3) dEC (99.88%)245Cm3/2−
α (.12%)241Am
246Bk97149246.068671(64)1.80(2) dβ+246Cm2(−)
α?242Am
247Bk97150247.0703059(56)1.38(25)×103 yα243Am3/2−
SF?(various)
248Bk97151248.073142(54)>9 yα?244Am6+#
EC?248Cm
248mBk13−20(50) keV23.7(2) hβ− (70%)248Cf1(−)
EC (30%)248Cm
α?244Am
249Bk97152249.0749831(13)327.2(3) dβ−249Cf7/2+
α (.00145%)245Am
SF (4.7×10−8%)(various)
249mBk8.777(14) keV300 μsIT249Bk3/2−
250Bk97153250.0783172(31)3.212(5) hβ−250Cf2−
250m1Bk35.59(10) keV29(1) μsIT250Bk4+
250m2Bk85.6(16) keV213(8) μsIT250Bk7+
251Bk97154251.080761(12)55.6(11) minβ−251Cf(3/2−)
251mBk35.5(13) keV58(4) μsIT251Bk(7/2+)
252Bk97155252.08431(22)#1.8(5) minβ−?252Cf
α?248Am
253Bk97156253.08688(39)#60# minβ−?253Cf3/2-#
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Actinides vs fission products

Actinides and fission products by half-life
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Actinides14 by decay chainHalf-life range (a)Fission products of 235U by yield15
4n4n + 14n + 24n + 34.5–7%0.04–1.25%<0.001%
228Ra№4–6 a155Euþ
248Bk16> 9 a
244Cmƒ241Puƒ250Cf227Ac№10–29 a90Sr85Kr113mCdþ
232238Puƒ243Cmƒ29–97 a137Cs151Smþ121mSn
249Cfƒ242mAmƒ141–351 a

No fission products have a half-lifein the range of 100 a–210 ka ...

241Amƒ251Cfƒ17430–900 a
226Ra№247Bk1.3–1.6 ka
240Pu229Th246Cmƒ243Amƒ4.7–7.4 ka
245Cmƒ250Cm8.3–8.5 ka
239Puƒ24.1 ka
230Th№231Pa№32–76 ka
236Npƒ233234U№150–250 ka99Tc₡126Sn
248Cm242Pu327–375 ka79Se₡
1.33 Ma135Cs₡
237Npƒ1.61–6.5 Ma93Zr107Pd
236U247Cmƒ15–24 Ma129I₡
244Pu80 Ma

... nor beyond 15.7 Ma18

232Th№238U№235Uƒ№0.7–14.1 Ga

References

  1. mBk – Excited nuclear isomer. /wiki/Nuclear_isomer

  2. Wang, Meng; Huang, W.J.; Kondev, F.G.; Audi, G.; Naimi, S. (2021). "The AME 2020 atomic mass evaluation (II). Tables, graphs and references*". Chinese Physics C. 45 (3): 030003. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abddaf. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)

  3. ( ) – Uncertainty (1σ) is given in concise form in parentheses after the corresponding last digits.

  4. # – Atomic mass marked #: value and uncertainty derived not from purely experimental data, but at least partly from trends from the Mass Surface (TMS).

  5. Kondev, F. G.; Wang, M.; Huang, W. J.; Naimi, S.; Audi, G. (2021). "The NUBASE2020 evaluation of nuclear properties" (PDF). Chinese Physics C. 45 (3): 030001. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abddae. https://www-nds.iaea.org/amdc/ame2020/NUBASE2020.pdf

  6. Kondev, F. G.; Wang, M.; Huang, W. J.; Naimi, S.; Audi, G. (2021). "The NUBASE2020 evaluation of nuclear properties" (PDF). Chinese Physics C. 45 (3): 030001. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abddae. https://www-nds.iaea.org/amdc/ame2020/NUBASE2020.pdf

  7. Modes of decay: EC:Electron captureSF:Spontaneous fission /wiki/Electron_capture

  8. Kondev, F. G.; Wang, M.; Huang, W. J.; Naimi, S.; Audi, G. (2021). "The NUBASE2020 evaluation of nuclear properties" (PDF). Chinese Physics C. 45 (3): 030001. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abddae. https://www-nds.iaea.org/amdc/ame2020/NUBASE2020.pdf

  9. ( ) spin value – Indicates spin with weak assignment arguments.

  10. # – Values marked # are not purely derived from experimental data, but at least partly from trends of neighboring nuclides (TNN).

  11. # – Values marked # are not purely derived from experimental data, but at least partly from trends of neighboring nuclides (TNN).

  12. Kaji, D.; Morimoto, K.; Haba, H.; Ideguchi, E.; Koura, H.; Morita, K. (2016). "Decay Properties of New Isotopes 234Bk and 230Am, and Even–Even Nuclides 234Cm and 230Pu" (PDF). Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 84 (15002): 015002. Bibcode:2016JPSJ...85a5002K. doi:10.7566/JPSJ.85.015002. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291009584

  13. Order of ground state and isomer is uncertain.

  14. Plus radium (element 88). While actually a sub-actinide, it immediately precedes actinium (89) and follows a three-element gap of instability after polonium (84) where no nuclides have half-lives of at least four years (the longest-lived nuclide in the gap is radon-222 with a half life of less than four days). Radium's longest lived isotope, at 1,600 years, thus merits the element's inclusion here. /wiki/Polonium

  15. Specifically from thermal neutron fission of uranium-235, e.g. in a typical nuclear reactor. /wiki/Thermal_neutron

  16. Milsted, J.; Friedman, A. M.; Stevens, C. M. (1965). "The alpha half-life of berkelium-247; a new long-lived isomer of berkelium-248". Nuclear Physics. 71 (2): 299. Bibcode:1965NucPh..71..299M. doi:10.1016/0029-5582(65)90719-4."The isotopic analyses disclosed a species of mass 248 in constant abundance in three samples analysed over a period of about 10 months. This was ascribed to an isomer of Bk248 with a half-life greater than 9 [years]. No growth of Cf248 was detected, and a lower limit for the β− half-life can be set at about 104 [years]. No alpha activity attributable to the new isomer has been detected; the alpha half-life is probably greater than 300 [years]." /wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)

  17. This is the heaviest nuclide with a half-life of at least four years before the "sea of instability". /wiki/Sea_of_instability

  18. Excluding those "classically stable" nuclides with half-lives significantly in excess of 232Th; e.g., while 113mCd has a half-life of only fourteen years, that of 113Cd is eight quadrillion years. /wiki/Primordial_nuclide