Computational Errors in the Calculation of Long Radioactive Decay Chains

Method of False Rates for Radioactive Decay Chain Calculation

“…An algebraic solution of Bateman's equations requiring an eigenvalue/eigenvector calculation and matrix inversion is demonstrated in [8]. More recent work has focused on error estimations and a power law approximation for Bateman's solution [9,10]. Much of the analysis for decay chain calculations focus on the Bateman's equations.…”

radioactivedecay: A Python package for radioactive decay calculations

“…It supports decay chains with branching decays and metastable nuclear isomers. It includes a high numerical precision decay calculation mode, which resolves numerical problems with using double-precision floating-point numbers to calculate decay chains involving radionuclides with disparate half-lives (Bakin et al, 2018).…”