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MEASUREMENTS of the spontaneous fission rates of nearly twenty nuclides have recently been published. Most of these are given in a paper by Segre1, in which he describes the work carried out at Los Alamos during the War, and also sums up the results of other experiments. Measurements on curium-242 have been published by Hanna et al.2.
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Segre, E., LADC 975.
Hanna, Harvey, Moss and Tunnicliffe, Phys. Rev., 81, 466 (1951).
Bohr and Wheeler, Phys. Rev., 55, 426 (1939).
Bretscher, Cook, Martin and Poole, British Report BR 384.
Blanchard, Gofman and Seaborg (quoted by Segre).
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WHITEHOUSE, W., GALBRAITH, W. Spontaneous Fission Rates. Nature 169, 494 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/169494a0
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