A Probability of U-235 fission happening

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Where can I find information about the ~82% of U-235 nuclear fission happening and ~18% not happening?
 
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NewPhysi said:
Where can I find information about the ~82% of U-235 nuclear fission happening and ~18% not happening?

Where did you find those numbers? What do these percentages correspond? like 82% of what?
 
snorkack said:
One possible link:
https://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/cgi-bin/Tab80WWW.cgi?lib=J40&iso=U235
What do you want to choose as denominator?

yea I figured that it was somewhat related to ## \dfrac{\sigma (\text{slow }n \text{ fission})}{\sigma (\text{slow }n \text{ total})} \approx 84 \%## the other important processes are just elastic scattering and production of U-236* which decays via gamma to U-236
 

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