Chinese scientists are leveraging americium, which has usually been written off as nuclear waste, as part of a reaction ...

The proposed micronuclear battery is made up of americium, a man-made radioactive element produced during the fission of ...

But there's at least one substance in the periodic table that was named in response to a nearby element, and that's americium, the element that looks as if it should be pronounced [AMER-ICK-IUM]. It ...

It’s widely known that a smoke detector is a good ionizing radiation source, as they contain a small amount of americium-241, a side product of nuclear reactors. But what about other sources?