A new design for a nuclear battery that generates electricity from the radioactive decay of americium is unprecedentedly ...

When you picture a sci-fi energy source, glowing green crystals are right up there. Scientists in China have now demonstrated ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking nuclear battery with unprecedented efficiency, capable of powering devices for ...

But there's at least one substance in the periodic table that was named in response to a nearby element, and that's americium, the element that looks as if it should be pronounced [AMER-ICK-IUM]. It ...

A team of physicists and engineers affiliated with several institutions in China has developed an extremely small nuclear ...

A significant quantity of the highly valuable and radioactive metal americium was uncovered in a covert operation led by the District Prosecutor's Office in Plovdiv, in collaboration with the Ministry ...

That’s what [Richard] did using household items such as clock fingers for Radium, and smoke detectors for Americium. After the radioactive elements were separated from their household ...

It’s widely known that a smoke detector is a good ionizing radiation source, as they contain a small amount of americium-241, a side product of nuclear reactors. But what about other sources?

Because used nuclear fuel can be recycled several times through a fast nuclear reactor, it is worth more than gold.

There are already two different drug injections that can be used to treat people who have been exposed to radioactive plutonium, americium or curium. For decades, experts have also known that ...

One type of smoke detector uses Americium-241, an alpha particle source, to detect smoke. The alpha particles pass between the two charged metal plates, causing air particles to ionise (split into ...

Their disposal stream encompassed a variety of dangerous liquids made up of tritium, plutonium, uranium and americium and ...