Americium measured in Tokyo suburb.... ONLY made in a reactor from Plutonium....

On 11/11/2012, Americium-241 was measured in Edogawaku Tokyo. (made by Plutonium reactions ie: Plutonium bi-product.

just wait for the first reports of Plutonium.... by then it won't matter..... The Genie has been well out of the bottle for over 18 months now....

10 Million BQ's per hour still reported by TEPCO from Fukushima.....

[link to fukushima-diary.com]

It makes me wonder which vids to believe.. the nay sayers who get > .05 or the ones shown at the above link.....


Nice.. Alpha emmiter

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If you were looking at an individual americium-241 atom, it would be impossible to predict when it would throw off an alpha particle. However, if you have a large collection of americium atoms, then the rate of decay becomes quite predictable. For americium-241, it is known that half of the atoms decay in 458 years. Therefore, 458 years is the half-life of americium-241. Every radioactive element has a different half-life, ranging from fractions of a second to millions of years, depending on the specific isotope. For example, americium-243 has a half-life of 7,370 years....

...Neutron radiation can be used to make nonradioactive atoms become radioactive; this has practical applications in nuclear medicine. Neutron radiation is also made from nuclear reactors in power plants and nuclear-powered ships and in particle accelerators, devices used to study subatomic physics....

...In many cases, a nucleus that has undergone alpha decay, beta decay or spontaneous fission will be highly energetic and therefore unstable. It will eliminate its extra energy as an electromagnetic pulse known as a gamma ray. Gamma rays are like X-rays in that they penetrate matter, but they are more energetic than X-rays. Gamma rays are made of energy, not moving particles like alpha and beta particles....


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[link to science.howstuffworks.com]

that's a half life so times X 10 for it to become dormant...

synopsis? if Americium is detected, as an alpha emitter (which is hard to detect), DOES NOT NEED TO BE INGESTED to be harmful, then Plutonium cannot be far from it..... damn scary.... Amercium was one of the first 'man made' radioactive elements detected from the use of Uranium to Plutonium....

This, by the way is the capital of Japan, not some back of the Urals Moscow event..... capital city... japan.. island... no cold shut down.... screwed....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 11/18/2012 09:50 PM