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Americium Summary
1,010 words, approx. 3 pages
Americium Symbol Am Atomic Number 95 Atomic Mass 243.0614 Family Actinide Transuranium element Pronunciation am-uh-REE-see-um Overview Americium is called an actinide or transuranium element. It occurs in Row 7 of the periodic table, a chart that shows...
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Americium Summary
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Americium is a transuranium element, one of the elements that lies beyond uranium in the periodic table. Its atomic number is 92, and the mass of its most stable isotope is 243. Its chemical symbol is Am. Americium does not occur in nature. It is...
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Americium Summary
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Americium is an element in the actinide series which has an atomic number of 95, and the atomic weight of its most stable isotope is 243. Fourteen isotopes of the element are known. The element exists as a silver-white metal with a melting point of...
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Americium Information
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Americium (pronounced /ˌæməˈrɪsiəm/) is a synthetic element that has the symbol Am and atomic number 95. A radioactive metallic element, americium is an actinide that was obtained in 1944 by bombarding plutonium with neutrons and was the fourth...


News and Journals
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Albuquerque Journal
Americium Spread To Pa. Lab Contamination From LANL Not Serious, Officials Say
08/09/2005: 684 words, approx. 2 pages
Contamination from radioactive americium from a Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher was spread through a Federal Express package to a U.S. Naval nuclear power research lab in Pennsylvania, according to a LANL report. LANL officials discovered the package had been sent two days...
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Explosive secrets.(it has been widely known that plutonium and enriched uranium can be used to make nuclear weapons, but it also possible to make such a weapon using neptunium and americium )(Brief Article)
03/01/1999: 818 words, approx. 3 pages
Costly efforts have been made to stem the possible spread of plutonium and highly enriched uranium--the two materials most often mentioned in fear-of-God stories about the danger that Russia's nukes will get loose, or that Saddam Hussein or some lookalike rogue will beg, borrow,...
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AP Features
Nigeria can't adequately store, track its radioactive material, says country's nuclear chief
7/26/2007: 832 words, approx. 3 pages
The new president of Nigeria is urging the country to embrace nuclear power, although his own nuclear watchdog is struggling to track the radioactive materials already in use here."We need to develop the capacity to utilize nuclear power for power generation. Who knows, nuclear power...
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AP News
Nuclear lab operator cited for safety
2/27/2007: 453 words, approx. 2 pages
The National Nuclear Security Administration proposed a $1.1 million civil penalty against the former manager of a nuclear weapons lab for safety violations that included a researcher spreading radiological contamination to two other states and workers inhaling radioactive substances.The agency announced the notice of violation...
 


 

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