They repeated their experiment in 1970 looking for spontaneous fission.
All these isotopes are characterized by high rates of spontaneous fission.
The first study produced evidence for a spontaneous fission with a 0.3 second half-life and another one at 8 seconds.
This further underwent spontaneous fission with a half-time of about 1.3 h.
Pu-240 has a high rate of spontaneous fission, which can cause a nuclear weapon to predetonate.
The most commonly used spontaneous fission source is the radioactive isotope californium-252.
A fourth decay by direct spontaneous fission was also proposed.
Uranium, for example, constantly undergoes spontaneous fission at a very slow rate.
One possible neutron source is californium-252 which undergoes spontaneous fission.
It was found that the final nucleus undergoes spontaneous fission.