Americium-241

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Americium-241
Properties
TypeElement
Made With/BySILEX
Difficulty of ProductionHard
Exists in RealityYes
Atomic Number95
Radioactivity8.5 RAD/s


Americium-241
Main Information
CategoryRadiation emitter
Radioactivity8.5 RAD/s
Gameplay Information
AcquisitionDecay product
DifficultyHard


Americium-241 is a rare radioisotope which is useful for some later game power generation devices such as recharging batteries and also serves as a powerful nuclear fuel. Can only be produced by the decay of plutonium-241 in RBMK nuclear reactors.

Production

Americium-241 is produced by processing short-lived plutonium-241 waste in a SILEX chamber with 25% of operations yielding one nugget, meaning that one piece of plutonium-241 waste will on average yield 2¼ nuggets of it.

The SILEX can also process reactor grade americium ingots with 33% of operations yielding one nugget of americium-241.

Laser Isotope Seperation Chamber
Short-Lived Nuclear Waste
BiSmUTh Laser Crystal
9.0x
Americium-241 Nugget
25.0%
Americium-242 Nugget
35.0%
Technetium-99 Nugget
5.0%
Tiny Pile of Iodine-131 Powder
3.0%
Tiny Pile of Caesium-137 Powder
7.0%
Tiny Pile of Nuclear Waste
25.0%
Reactor Grade Americium Ingot
BiSmUTh Laser Crystal
9.0x
Americium-241 Nugget
33.0%
Americium-242 Nugget
66.0%

Uses

  • Crafting fuel for low and medium enriched Americium RBMK fuel rods as well as a highly enriched Americium RBMK fuel rod which splits with fast neutrons, rendering moderation unnecessary.
Crafting Table
Empty RBMK Fuel Rod
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
HEA-241 RBMK Fuel Rod
This recipe is shapeless; the inputs may be placed in any arrangement in the crafting grid.
  • Americium-241 pellet which will provide 20 thermal power to any applicable machine for 3,384,000,000 ticks if RTG decay is enabled.
Crafting Table
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
Iron Plate
Americium-241 RTG Pellet
This recipe is shapeless; the inputs may be placed in any arrangement in the crafting grid.
    • This is approximately equal to 5.5 years in real life given its stated in-game lifespan of 705 years, meaning that it will make 67,680,000,000 power in total over that time.
    • Pellets decay into neptunium.
  • Americium-241 self charging battery.
Crafting Table
Empty Self-Charging Battery
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Billet
Americium-241 Self-Charging Battery
This recipe is shapeless; the inputs may be placed in any arrangement in the crafting grid.

Trivia

  • Americium-241 is used in most ionization smoke detector designs.

Gallery

  • RTG pellet, with an image of the continental USA stamped onto the top.

    RTG pellet, with an image of the continental USA stamped onto the top.

  • Unused texture for a so-called "Tier 2" version of the RTG pellet, with an image of an AR-15 superimposed over the texture.

    Unused texture for a so-called "Tier 2" version of the RTG pellet, with an image of an AR-15 superimposed over the texture.

  • Billet.

    Billet.

  • Nugget.

    Nugget.

External Links

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