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  2. Americium-241 - Wikipedia

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    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 is the most common isotope of americium as well as the most prevalent isotope of americium in nuclear waste .

  3. List of radioactive nuclides by half-life - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive isotope table "lists ALL radioactive nuclei with a half-life greater than 1000 years", incorporated in the list above. The NUBASE2020 evaluation of nuclear physics properties F.G. Kondev et al. 2021 Chinese Phys. C 45 030001. The PDF of this article lists the half-lives of all known radioactives nuclides.

  4. Americium - Wikipedia

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    There are two long-lived alpha-emitters; 243 Am has a half-life of 7,370 years and is the most stable isotope, and 241 Am has a half-life of 432.2 years. The most stable nuclear isomer is 242m1 Am; it has a long half-life of 141 years. The half-lives of other isotopes and isomers range from 0.64 microseconds for 245m1 Am to 50.8 hours for 240 ...

  5. Isotopes of americium - Wikipedia

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    Americium-243 has a mass of 243.06138 g/mol and a half-life of 7,370 years, the longest lasting of all americium isotopes. It is formed in the nuclear fuel cycle by neutron capture on plutonium-242 followed by beta decay . [ 15 ]

  6. Commonly used gamma-emitting isotopes - Wikipedia

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    A fission product is a nucleus with approximately half the mass of a uranium or plutonium nucleus which is left over after such a nucleus has been "split" in a nuclear fission reaction. Caesium-137 is one such radionuclide. It has a half-life of 30 years, and decays by beta decay without gamma ray emission to a metastable state of barium-137 ...

  7. Minor actinide - Wikipedia

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    The most important 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 and the minor actinides will be responsible for the bulk of the radiotoxicity and heat generation of spent nuclear fuel in the long term (300 to 20,000 years in ...

  8. Fertile material - Wikipedia

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    americium-241 to curium-242 to curium-243 (or, more likely, curium-242 decays to plutonium-238, which also requires one additional neutron to reach a fissile nuclide) Since these require a total of 3 or 4 thermal neutrons to eventually fission, and a thermal neutron fission generates only about 2 to 3 neutrons, these nuclides represent a net ...

  9. Template:Critical mass - Wikipedia

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    Nuclide Half-life (y) Critical mass (kg) Diameter (cm) Ref uranium-233: 159,200: 15: 11 [1]uranium-235: 703,800,000: 52: 17 [1]neptunium-236: 154,000: 7: 8.7 [2 ...