Chinese scientists are leveraging americium, which has usually been written off as nuclear waste, as part of a reaction ...

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Perpetual Atomics is excited to announce this collaboration, which will enable the processing of americium into sealed ...

Scientists from across several Chinese institutions have unveiled a new ultra-compact nuclear battery that has the potential ...

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?