He seems surprised I know about americium, and how they use it. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
This time, the device is filled with the radioactive substance americium. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Jane Harman: U.S. Security Strategy a Huge Challenge Facing Next President] Reference
The devices, which contained radioactive americium-beryllium, were lost in December. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Analysis of the material showed it was actually americium -- a highly radioactive substance. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Cirincione: Dirty Nuclear Business] Reference
Originally radium was used; more recently polonium, uranium, and americium have been found to be safer. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfram Blog : A Thousand Points of Light] Reference
Piping hot from the kitchen comes, oh my, grandma's savory steamed topsoil with pureed plutonium and americium. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Strake for Thanksgiving] Reference
In an average of thirteen years the plutonium changes to another element, americium, but that's radioactive, too. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Acord has therefore basically produced a conventional americium-beryllium neutron source from home-made materials. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Inside each box was a soil-testing device, containing highly dangerous quantities of radioactive caesium 137 and americium-beryllium. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Congress Fuels South Asian Nuclear Arms Race] Reference
Modern uranium ore or americium button-based spinthariscopes are not dangerously radioactive and the sources are well sealed, but still. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfram Blog : A Thousand Points of Light] Reference
Although all of these goals were demonstrated, the program was aborted before recycling of neptunium and americium was properly evaluated. From Wordnik.com. [Fast neutron reactors (FBR)] Reference
Cesium and americium bind chemically to concrete and asphalt and become lodged in cracks on the surface of sidewalks, streets and buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Jane Harman: U.S. Security Strategy a Huge Challenge Facing Next President] Reference
Ores have different mixtures of elements — uranium and americium or polonium — which emit alpha, beta and gamma radiation at different rates. From Wordnik.com. [How to Keep the Bomb From Terrorists] Reference
It did not specify what the materials were but americium and cesium are two of the most commonly used by the industry, although usually in relatively small amounts. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
At the same time, the plutonium was degenerating into other radioactive components like americium, which emits gamma rays that travel further and cannot be easily blocked. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Village Wants to Cash In on Nuclear Past] Reference
He took radiation readings as proof that his homebrew americium 'neutron gun' worked; Ghiorso says "it was much more likely that he was only observing X-rays emitted by the 241Am". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-09-01] Reference
He does not indicate any expenditure to contain the effects of the plutonium already on the sea floor, though it will remain a source of accelerating contamination as it decays to americium, and as the tide and wind continue to bring it ashore. From Wordnik.com. ['Mother Country': An Exchange] Reference
General Atomics say that the MHR has a neutron spectrum is such and the TRISO fuel so stable that the reactor can be powered fully with separated transuranic wastes (neptunium, plutonium, americium and curium) from light water reactor used fuel. From Wordnik.com. [Small nuclear power reactors] Reference
The area is rife with uranium, americium, and plutonum dust that is dangerous to breathe. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
The 5 percent stream would be plutonium, curium, neptunium, and americium to burn in the reactor. From Wordnik.com. Reference
These elements-a group that includes americium and neptunium-are known as non-fissile transuranics. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. News] Reference
The target atom, berkelium, is itself a synthetic element created by bombarding americium with ions. From Wordnik.com. [Something Awful] Reference
The artificial elements berkelium, californium, and americium were produced at Berkeley, California. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
An explosion at the Plutonium Finishing Plant in 1976 sprayed him with americium, leaving it embedded in his skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Each former worker has a documented exposure to high levels of radioactive materials such as plutonium, uranium, americium and thorium. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
He had been exposed as a young graduate student at Berkeley University in the 1950s who took few precautions as he worked with americium. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
These are the things that are formed when uranium doesn't fission, things like plutonium primarily, also americium and curium, and these are the things that give us the long-term headaches. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
More plutonium, uranium, americium, cesium, thorium, take your pickium there's a container of it buried out there, probably mixed with something toxic, mutagenic, or carcinogenic that's equally scary when it's not radioactive. From Wordnik.com. [freshnews.org - most clicked links] Reference
Seaborg therefore proposed for the new transuranium elements 95 and 96 the names americium and curium, in analogy with their corresponding rare earths europium and gadolinium (after. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 - Presentation Speech] Reference
0.1% minor actinides (americium, curium, neptunium). From Wordnik.com. [Nuclear waste management] Reference
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium. From Wordnik.com. [Qulog 2.0] Reference
There’s americium, germanium, polonium, and francium, to name but a few. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
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