Editing Template:Actinides vs fission products

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! colspan="4" | [[Actinide]]s<ref>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.</ref> by [[decay chain]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Half-life]] <br />range ([[year|a]])
! colspan="4" style="font-size:90%;" | [[Fission product]]s of [[Uranium-235|<sup>235</sup>U]] by [[fission product yield|yield]]<ref>Specifically from [[thermal neutron]] fission of uranium-235, e.g. in a typical [[nuclear reactor]].</ref>
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! [[Thorium series|4''n'']]
! [[Neptunium series|4''n'' + 1]]
! [[Uranium series|4''n'' + 2]]
! [[Actinium series|4''n'' + 3]]
! 4.5–7%
! style="padding:3px 0;" | 0.04–1.25%
! <0.001%
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| {{Iso1|[[Radium-228|228]]|Ra<sup>№</sup>|0}}
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! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Medium-lived fission product|4–6&nbsp;a]]
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| {{Iso1|[[Europium-155|155]]|Eu<sup>þ</sup>|0}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Berkelium-248|248]]|Bk|0}}<ref>{{Cite journal 
 | last1 = Milsted | first1 = J.
 | last2 = Friedman | first2 = A. M.
 | last3 = Stevens | first3 = C. M.
 | doi = 10.1016/0029-5582(65)90719-4
 | title = The alpha half-life of berkelium-247; a new long-lived isomer of berkelium-248
 | journal = Nuclear Physics
 | volume = 71
 | issue = 2
 | pages = 299
 | year = 1965
 | bibcode = 1965NucPh..71..299M
}}<br />"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 Bk<sup>248</sup> with a half-life greater than 9 [years]. No growth of Cf<sup>248</sup> was detected, and a lower limit for the β<sup>−</sup> half-life can be set at about 10<sup>4</sup> [years]. No alpha activity attributable to the new isomer has been detected; the alpha half-life is probably greater than 300 [years]."</ref>
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! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Medium-lived fission product|>&nbsp;9&nbsp;a]]
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| {{Iso1|[[Curium-244|244]]|Cm<sup>ƒ</sup>|1}}
| {{Iso1|[[Plutonium-241|241]]|Pu<sup>ƒ</sup>|1}}
| {{Iso1|[[Californium-250|250]]|Cf|1}}
| {{Iso1|[[Actinium-227|227]]|Ac<sup>№</sup>|1}}
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Medium-lived fission product|10–29&nbsp;a]]
| {{Iso1|[[Strontium-90|90]]|Sr|1}}
| {{Iso1|[[Krypton-85|85]]|Kr|1}}
| {{Iso1|[[Cadmium-113m|113m]]|Cd<sup>þ</sup>|1}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Uranium-232|232]]|U<sup>ƒ</sup>|1}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Plutonium-238|238]]|Pu<sup>ƒ</sup>|1}}
| {{Iso1|[[Curium-243|243]]|Cm<sup>ƒ</sup>|1}}
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Medium-lived fission product|29–97&nbsp;a]]
| {{Iso1|[[Cs-137|137]]|Cs|1}}
| {{Iso1|[[Samarium-151|151]]|Sm<sup>þ</sup>|1}}
| {{Iso1|[[Tin-121m|121m]]|Sn|1}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Californium-249|249]]|Cf<sup>ƒ</sup>|2}}
| {{Iso1|[[Americium-242m|242m]]|Am<sup>ƒ</sup>|2}}
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! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 141–351&nbsp;a
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No fission products have a {{nobr|half-life}}</br>in the range of 100&nbsp;a–210&nbsp;ka ...
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| {{Iso1|[[Americium-241|241]]|Am<sup>ƒ</sup>|2}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Californium-251|251]]|Cf<sup>ƒ</sup>|2}}<ref>This is the heaviest nuclide with a half-life of at least four years before the "[[sea of instability]]".</ref>
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 430–900&nbsp;a
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| {{Iso1|[[Radium-226|226]]|Ra<sup>№</sup>|3}}
| {{Iso1|[[Berkelium-247|247]]|Bk|3}}
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 1.3–1.6&nbsp;ka
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| {{Iso1|[[Plutonium-240|240]]|Pu|3}}
| {{Iso1|[[Thorium-229|229]]|Th|3}}
| {{Iso1|[[Curium-246|246]]|Cm<sup>ƒ</sup>|3}}
| {{Iso1|[[Americium-243|243]]|Am<sup>ƒ</sup>|3}}
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 4.7–7.4&nbsp;ka
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| {{Iso1|[[Curium-245|245]]|Cm<sup>ƒ</sup>|3}}
| {{Iso1|[[Curium-250|250]]|Cm|3}}
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! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 8.3–8.5&nbsp;ka
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| {{Iso1|[[Plutonium-239|239]]|Pu<sup>ƒ</sup>|4}}
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 24.1&nbsp;ka
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| {{Iso1|[[Thorium-230|230]]|Th<sup>№</sup>|4}}
| {{Iso1|[[Protactinium-231|231]]|Pa<sup>№</sup>|4}}
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 32–76&nbsp;ka
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| {{Iso1|[[Neptunium-236|236]]|Np<sup>ƒ</sup>|5}}
| {{Iso1|[[Uranium-233|233]]|U<sup>ƒ</sup>|5}}
| {{Iso1|[[Uranium-234|234]]|U<sup>№</sup>|5}}
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! class="nowrap" style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Long-lived fission product|150–250&nbsp;ka]]
| {{Iso1|[[Technetium-99|99]]|Tc<sup>₡</sup>|5}}
| {{Iso1|[[Tin-126|126]]|Sn|5}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Curium-248|248]]|Cm|5}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Plutonium-242|242]]|Pu|5}}
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! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Long-lived fission product|327–375&nbsp;ka]]
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| {{Iso1|[[Selenium-79|79]]|Se<sup>₡</sup>|5}}
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! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Long-lived fission product|1.33&nbsp;Ma]]
| {{Iso1|[[Caesium-135|<span style="color:white;">135</span>]]|Cs<sup>₡</sup>|6}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Neptunium-237|<span style="color:white;">237</span>]]|Np<sup>ƒ</sup>|6}}
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! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Long-lived fission product|1.61–6.5&nbsp;Ma]]
| {{Iso1|[[Zirconium-93|<span style="color:white;">93</span>]]|Zr|6}}
| {{Iso1|[[Palladium-107|<span style="color:white;">107</span>]]|Pd|6}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Uranium-236|<span style="color:white;">236</span>]]|U|7}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Curium-247|<span style="color:white;">247</span>]]|Cm<sup>ƒ</sup>|7}}
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | [[Long-lived fission product|15–24&nbsp;Ma]]
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| {{Iso1|[[Iodine-129|<span style="color:white;">129</span>]]|I<sup>₡</sup>|7}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Plutonium-244|<span style="color:white;">244</span>]]|Pu|7}}
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! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 80&nbsp;Ma
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... nor beyond 15.7&nbsp;Ma<ref>Excluding those "[[primordial nuclide|classically stable]]" nuclides with half-lives significantly in excess of <sup>232</sup>Th; e.g., while <sup>113m</sup>Cd has a half-life of only fourteen years, that of <sup>113</sup>Cd is eight [[orders of magnitude (numbers)#1015|quadrillion]] years.</ref>
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| {{Iso1|[[Thorium-232|232]]|Th<sup>№</sup>|9}}
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| {{Iso1|[[Uranium-238|238]]|U<sup>№</sup>|9}}
| {{Iso1|[[Uranium-235|235]]|U<sup>ƒ№</sup>|9}}
! style="background:#e8e8e8; text-align:right;" | 0.7–14.1&nbsp;Ga
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 | ₡,&nbsp; has thermal [[neutron capture]] cross section in the range of 8–50 barns
 | ƒ,&nbsp; [[fissile]]
 | №,&nbsp; primarily a [[naturally occurring radioactive material]] (NORM)
 | þ,&nbsp; [[neutron poison]] (thermal neutron capture cross section greater than 3k barns)
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