How are fission products formed? [closed]








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I know this question may seem a bit simple, but I would like to know about how fission products of an element are formed. There seems to be no way for krypton-92 and barium-141, the immediate fission products of U235, to decay into a fission product like caesium-137 or technetium-99. Instead, I found they quickly decay to the stable nuclides zirconium-91, zirconium-92, and praseodymium-141, and the intermediate radioactive nuclides all have half-lives of within a few months.


So, my question is, how are these other fission products formed?




There are *many* immediate primary fission products, with 2 probability peaks near 2/5 and 3/5 of original uranium-235 nucleon number. By other words, there are multiple ways how the nucleus can be broken, some more probable than others.



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This is false premise. These are just the products of a single fission mode from many. In a classical analogy, there is multiple ways how to break a stone.


See also [Nuclear fission products](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission_product) and [Fission product yield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission_product_yield)


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