Americium-242m

Americium-242m
Properties
Type	Element
Made With/By	SILEX
Difficulty of Production	Hard
Exists in Reality	Yes
Atomic Number	95
Radioactivity	9.5 RAD/s

Americium-242m
Main Information
Category	Fissile
Radioactivity	9.5 RAD/s
Gameplay Information
Acquisition	Decay product
Difficulty	Hard

Americium-242m (specifically americium-242m1) is a rare radioisotope used in production of americium fuels for reactors. It is produced only by the decay of plutonium-241 fuel in RBMK nuclear reactors.

Production

Can be produced by processing hot short lived plutonium-241 waste in a SILEX chamber or by processing reactor grade americium in the same manner, but crafting reactor grade americium requires Am-242 in the first place which renders this process only useful for uncrafting existing materials.

Laser Isotope Seperation Chamber

9.0x 25.0% 35.0% 5.0% 3.0% 7.0% 25.0%

9.0x 33.0% 66.0%

Uses

• Highly reactive RBMK and PWR fuels.

Crafting Table

• Can be combined with americium-241 to make reactor grade americium.

Trivia

• Am-242m1 is a metastable isomer that has a longer half-life (~141 years) than its normal state Am-242, (of 16.02 hours), which is extremely rare.
  • It is called "Am-242" in-game, but this is just an old typo.
  • Am-242m2 is also possible, but it is highly unstable with a half-life of only about 14 milliseconds.

Gallery

• 

  Billet.

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  Nugget.

External Links

• Americium at Wikipedia.