From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 17:09:31 MDT
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 17:59, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>As demonstrated in a previous list posting on using Americium in
>spacecraft propulsion, it is highly unstable, with criticality masses
>in the fraction of a gram level, as I recall.
Not so, according to Carey Sublette:
http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew/Nwfaq/Nfaq6.html#nfaq6.2
scroll down a ways to 6.2.4 Other Fissile Elements
sjv
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