Small amounts of americium dioxide are used in smoke detectors and alarms [1, 6]. Several isotopes of americium are now investigated on their use as a possible power source for deep space vehicles [1, 3]. It could potentially become the favored fuel source and replace the commonly used plu...
Americium is used in a variety of commercial applications, ranging from home smoke detectors to use in well logging by the oil industry. Am-241 was last produced in the United States in the 1980s, but Los Alamos National Laboratory began re-establishing production capability for purified " ...
SymbolAmA synthetic, silvery-white, radioactive metallic element of the actinide series that is produced artificially by bombarding plutonium with neutrons. Americium is used as a source of alpha particles for smoke detectors and gamma rays for industrial gauges. Its most stable isotope has a half-...
Americium is the only synthetic element that has found a common consumer use: as the ionization source in commercial and residential smoke detectors. Additionally, americium is used as neutron source in neutron probes and neutron radiography and as a portable source of gamma rays and alpha particles...
Am-241isusedinsomemedicaldiagnosticdevicesandina varietyofindustrialandcommercialdevicesthatmeasure densityandthickness.TinyAm-241sourcesarealso presentinsmokedetectors. Wheredoesitcomefrom? Am-241isamanmademetalthatisproducedfrom plutonium.Am-241foundintheenvironmentistheresultof ...
If swallowed, it is deposited in the bones. There, the radiation it gives off kills or damages cells, causing cancer. People are normally in no danger from smoke detectors containing americium-241. (Indeed, countless lives a year are saved in the United States because of smoke detectors.) ...
used as a tracer in radiochemical applications and analysis. Americium-241 has wider use as a source in ionization chambers in smoke detectors, discharge arresters, and industrial gages. It is also used as a source of alpha particles for production of neutrons in AmBe neutron sources (UNSCEAR,...
used asa neutron source in non-destructive testing of machinery and equipment, and as a thickness gauge in the glass industry. However, its most common application is as an ionization source in smoke detectors, and most of the several kilograms of americium made each year are used in this ...
Americium and curium are commonly used in home smoke detectors and for oil-well logging (241Am), and as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (244Cm).Keywords:americium;americyl;curium;actinides;transuranic;geosphere;environmentdoi:10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0438Wolfgang Runde...
Americium and curium are commonly used in home smoke detectors and for oil-well logging ( 241 Am), and as radioisotope thermoelectric generators ( 244 Cm).Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistrydoi:10.1002/0470862106.ia742Wolfgang RundeW. Runde, Americium and curium radionuclides, in: R.H. Crabtree ...