Americium-241 (241 Am , Am-241) is an isotope of americium. Like all isotopes of americium, it is radioactive, with a half-life of 432.2 years. 241 Am...

Americium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Am and atomic number 95. It is radioactive and a transuranic member of the actinide series in...

than 241 Am, the former is harder to obtain than the latter as more of it is present in spent nuclear fuel. Eighteen radioisotopes of americium, ranging...

detector contains about 37 kBq (1,000 nCi) of radioactive element americium-241 (241 Am ), corresponding to about 0.3 μg of the isotope. This provides...

the most common household smoke detectors. The radionuclide used is americium-241, which is created by bombarding plutonium with neutrons in a nuclear...

spent nuclear fuel waits before reprocessing, the more 241Pu decays to americium-241, which is nonfissile (although fissionable by fast neutrons) and an...

isotopes of these elements in spent nuclear fuel are neptunium-237, americium-241, americium-243, curium-242 through -248, and californium-249 through -252...

plutonium. In particular, plutonium-241 decays to americium-241 with a 14-year half-life. Because americium-241 is a gamma ray emitter,[citation needed]...

that of Harold McCluskey, who was exposed to an extremely high dose of americium-241 after an accident involving a glove box. He was subsequently treated...

241 is a repdigit in base 15 (111). 241 is the only known Lucas–Wieferich prime to (U, V) = (3, −1). Americium-241 is an isotope commonly used in smoke...

thickness gauges, moisture-density gauges (for density readings, with americium-241/beryllium providing the moisture reading), and in borehole logging devices...

emission, forming americium isotopes (95 protons). Plutonium-241 is the parent isotope of the neptunium series, decaying to americium-241 via beta emission...

nuclides. Plutonium-238, curium-244, strontium-90, and most recently americium-241 are the most often cited candidate isotopes, but 43 more isotopes out...

but can fuel fast reactors. Plutonium-241 is fissile, but beta decays with a half-life of 14 years to americium-241. Plutonium-242 is not fissile, nor very...

"Ion exchange purification of promethium-147 and its separation from americium-241, with diethylenetriaminepenta-acetic acid as the eluant" (PDF). Oak...

neutron probe contains a pellet of americium-241 and beryllium. The alpha particles emitted by the decay of the americium collide with the light beryllium...

Accidents. Chapter 5, Troubles tomorrow? Separated Neptunium 237 and Americium, Challenges of Fissile Material Control (1999), isis-online.org P. Weiss...

Elements within TRU are typically man-made and are known to contain americium-241 and several isotopes of plutonium. Because of the elements' longer half-lives...

found in traces in uranium ores because of neutron capture reactions. Americium-241, which is used in smoke detectors, decays to neptunium-237. Isotopes...

0.2 microgram of americium-241 initially present as a source of ionizing radiation. With a half-life of 432 years, the americium-241 in an ionization...

a radioisotope such as polonium-210, radium-226, plutonium-238, or americium-241. In the nuclear reaction that occurs, a beryllium nucleus is transmuted...

submarines with the crews. Plutonium-241, commonly comprising about 0.5% of weapon-grade plutonium, decays to americium-241, which is a powerful gamma radiation...

formed by the neutron activation of the commonly found stable isotope. Americium-241 has been used as a source of low energy gamma photons, it has been used...

heart of the thorium fuel cycle). Neptunium-237 and some isotopes of americium might be usable, but it is not clear that this has ever been implemented...

plutonium-239 (half-life 24 ka), plutonium-240 (6.56 ka), americium-241 (432 years), americium-243 (7.37 ka), curium-245 (8.50 ka), and curium-246 (4.73 ka)...

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Californium-252 (spontaneous fission) Plutonium-238 & beryllium, (α,n) reaction americium-241 & beryllium, (α,n) reaction polonium-210 & beryllium, (α,n) reaction...

acquires a box of defective smoke detectors so that he can take out the Americium-241 and build a nuclear power plant for the neighborhood. Government agents...

particles, a theoretical derivation of the empirical Geiger–Nuttall law. Americium-241, an alpha emitter, is used in smoke detectors. The alpha particles ionize...

_{102}^{256}No + 4_0^1n}}} . The first isotopes of transplutonium elements, americium-241 and curium-242, were synthesized in 1944 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph...