Negative results have been obtained in a search for spontaneously fissioning super-heavy nuclei by neutron counting of a large variety of samples. An upper limit of about 10^-11 g/g is estimated for the presence of such nuclei with a half-life of about 10⁹ yr.
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Grimm et al. (1971) studied this question.
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