Nuklida · radioaktif
Europium-152 (¹⁵²Eu)
Europium-152 (¹⁵²Eu) adalah isotop radioaktif europium dengan 63 proton dan 89 neutron (nomor massa 152). Waktu paruhnya 13,517 tahun (± 0,006 tahun), meluruh terutama lewat peluruhan beta plus (β⁺).
Data nuklida
- Nomor massa (A)
- 152
- Proton (Z)
- 63
- Neutron (N)
- 89
- Massa atom
- 151.921750980 ± 0.000001252 u
- Waktu paruh
- 13,517 tahun (± 0,006 tahun)
- Mode peluruhan
- Peluruhan beta plus (β⁺) ( 72,08 %), Peluruhan beta minus (β⁻) ( 27,92 %)
- Inti anak
- Samarium-152 (¹⁵²Sm), Gadolinium-152 (¹⁵²Gd)
- Tahun penemuan
- 1938
- Sumber data
- IAEA Atomic Mass Data Center (NUBASE) and IUPAC CIAAW, via PubChem
Kegunaan isotop europium
- For more than 40 years, weapons-grade plutonium was manufactured by the Krasnoyarsk Mining and Chemical Combine in the now closed town of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, using single-pass uranium-graphite production reactors. Water from the Yenisei River was used for heat removal from the reactor core. Radioactively contaminated water was discharged into the Yenisei River and was a primary source of contamination of bottom sediments and floodland for hundreds of kilometers down gradient from the Krasnoyarsk Mining and Chemical Combine. In 2002, radioactive contamination of the bottom sediments and floodlands was composed primarily of 137Cs, 152Eu, 154Eu, and 60Co. The decrease in the isotope-amount ratio n(154Eu)/n(152Eu) down the depth profiles (Fig. IUPAC.63.1) enables one to determine the age of bottom sediments and floodlands of the Yenisei River and calculate their average formation rates.
- Europium isotopes have been used in nuclear-control applications because they are good neutron absorbers. 152Eu (with a half-life of 13.5 years), which is produced by 151Eu via the neutron capture reaction 151Eu (n, γ) 152Eu, and 154Eu (with a half-life of 8.59 years) are used as reference sources for calibration in gamma ray spectroscopy (Fig. IUPAC.63.2).
Isotop europium lainnya
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