Methods of monitoring the consistency of sets of recommended data for the decay characteristics of radioactive nuclides.

Methods and procedures for monitoring the consistency of sets of recommended data for radioactive nuclide decay characteristics are considered. A procedure is proposed, which combines three methods of checking the consistency of quantities related to the decay scheme of a radionuclide: the decay energy, the energies and probabilities of nuclear transitions, the internal conversion coefficients and the energies and emission probabilities of the radiations accompanying the decay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]