Actinium-227

Actinium-227
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	Breeding
Difficulty of Production	Medium
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	89
Radioactivity	30.0 RAD/s
Warnings
Fire Diamond NFPA 704 4 0 0 Actinium-227

Actinium-227
Main Information
Category	Radiation emitter
Radioactivity	25.0 RAD/s
Gameplay Information
Acquisition	Bred from natural isotopes
Difficulty	Easy

Actinium-227 is a highly radioactive radioisotope used in specialized applications due to it being an incredibly strong radioactive source. It forms naturally as the decay product of uranium and thorium, though in minuscule quantities so artificial breeding is the most common method of obtaining it in useful quantities.

Production

Breeding Reactor

300600900

Cyclotron

Uses

• Actinium-227 RTG pellet will provide 20 thermal power to any applicable machine for 156,960,000 ticks if RTG decay is enabled.
  • This is approximately equal to ~3 real months given its stated in-game lifespan of 32 years and 70 days (assuming a 100 day year), meaning it will make 3,139,200,000 power in total over that time.
  • Pellets decay into lead.

Trivia

• In real life, it glows an "eerie" blue due to the rapid decay of and ionization from alpha and beta particles.
  • It neither glows nor is it pyrophoric in the mod even though it technically should be.
• It was also going to be used as a neutron source, since that is a real-life application, due to its immediate decay products having extremely short half-lives and being alpha emitters.

Gallery

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  Block.

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  Powder.

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  Tiny powder

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  Fragment.

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  Nugget.

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  Billet.

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  RTG pellet.

External Links

• Actinium at Wikipedia