Talk:Isotopes of zirconium

It's right???
Zr is the heaviest element...from 45Sc or 46Ca>90Mo(2beta to 90Zr) and 92Zr, What about Ru? 50Ti--->100Ru??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.126.202.81 (talk) 15:12, 15 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Titanium-50 has atomic mass 49.9447912 amu,2 titanium-50 atom have a mass 99.8895824 amu, Molybdenum-100 has atomic mass 99.907477 amu. Fussion 2 titanium-50 atoms to Molybdenum-100 consumes energy rather than releases. Cristiano Toàn (talk) 02:13, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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Zr-93, Zr-94
The main article says Zr-94 is stable. The half life listed in the JEFF 3.11 database is 1.89346 e+23 seconds, or 6.00014 e+15 years.

The main article says Zr-93 is 6.346% of fission products resulting from thermal fission of U-235 and 3.80% of fission products resulting from thermal fission of Pu-239.

Output from the ORIGEN-2 program from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a well-validated simulation of reactor fuel contents, shows Zr-93 as 1.703 kg/tonne of spent fuel from a light-water reactor used for 50.68 GW-day burnup at power of 36.5 MW and neutron flux of 3.14 e+14 N/cm^2/s. Total fission product content in one tonne of spent fuel is 52.18 kg. 1.073/52.18 is only 2.056%. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Van.snyder (talk • contribs) 23:35, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Could Zr-93 be used in nuclear fuel cladding?
So if I understand it correctly, Zirconium (which has to be very low in Hafnium, which is a headache onto itself) is used for cladding most fuel rods in nuclear fission plants, because of its low neutron capture cross-section. The cross-section of this isotope is similar to the stable isotopes. So could it be used for cladding? I think there's not too much heat being released by the decay and it should also not hurt the structural integrity and whatnot, right? So is the spent fuel contaminated by Hafnium, or is there some other reason not to use it for cladding? Hobbitschuster (talk) 22:12, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Zr-96 possible symmetric fisson into calcium-48
Zr-96 atom has an atomic mass 95.9082734(30)u. Each calcium-48 atom has an atomic mass 47.9525226(54)u. Each Zr-96 atom undergoes symmetric ino calcium-48 released about 3 MeVCristiano Toàn (talk) 02:55, 27 January 2024 (UTC)