Podcasts about Americium

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1201, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Decade Of Discovery 1: DNA's double helix. the 1950s. 2: Frank Sinatra by Harry James. the 1930s. 3: Quasars by astronomer and Faye Dunaway by Hollywood. the 1960s. 4: Hispaniola by Europeans. the 1490s. 5: Americium (atomic number 95). the 1940s. Round 2. Category: To Grind 1: Keeping this body part "to the grindstone" means applying yourself. nose. 2: Most waiters consider this tool a real grind when using it to add seasoning to salads. a pepper grinder (or pepper mill). 3: Grinding guides can help you efficiently get to level 10 in this Blizzard game set in Azeroth. World of Warcraft. 4: To grind their food, birds use this organ that also starts with "G". gizzard. 5: Mt. Suribachi was the site of a famed flag raising on this WWII island; Meat Grinder Hill was also a tough battle there. Iwo Jima. Round 3. Category: The Edgars 1: Part of "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams", "Obits" won the 2016 Short Story Edgar Award for my Maine man, this horror master. Stephen King. 2: "G" is for grand master as well as this woman who received the 2009 Grand Master Award. Sue Grafton. 3: 2018's best episode in a TV series was "Somebody to Love" by Noah Hawley for this Midwestern-set show spun off from a film, you betcha. Fargo. 4: This pseudonym of 2 authors got a special Edgar in 1950 for a "Mystery Magazine". Ellery Queen. 5: The Scotch was good. Too good. I tried to remember. It was 1955, and this writer had won for "The Long Goodbye". and now he had my gun. (Raymond) Chandler. Round 4. Category: Refugees 1: Turkey has more than 3 million refugees from this country racked by Civil War since 2011. Syria. 2: In 2021 the area called "Little" this city in Fremont, California prepared for a new wave of Afghan refugees. Little Kabul. 3: Many refugees from Africa dwell in Kara Tepe II, a refugee camp on this Greek island also known for its poetic heritage. Lesbos. 4: Political instability and other causes have sent thousands of refugees from this country into its neighbors. Burundi. 5: Term for the largest Muslim group of mainly Buddhist Myanmar; many of them have become refugees. the Rohingya. Round 5. Category: Sports Franchises' Previous Homes 1: The Los Angeles Dodgers. Brooklyn. 2: The Indianapolis Colts. Baltimore. 3: The Los Angeles Rams. St. Louis. 4: The Colorado Avalanche, oui, oui!. Quebec City. 5: The Atlanta Braves. Milwaukee. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

Hvad kan man bruge americium fra 300 brandalarmer til? Ja, for det første kan man bygge en strålekanon og faktisk også en atomreaktor. Og det er netop det, som teenageren David Hahn gør i sin mors baghave. Som 10-årig får han en bog om kemieksperimenter, og hvad der først er en lidt særpræget interesse, udvikler sig hurtigt til farlige eksperimenter. Takket være forfatteren Ken Silverstein ved vi en masse om David Hahns tidlige liv. Så jeg vil anbefale hans bog 'The Radioactive Boy Scout' eller denne artikel: https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/Du kan også se en kort dokumentar på Youtube om ham her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMl2sRCP1goPeriodisk – en RAKKERPAK original produceret af Rakkerpak Productions. Historierne du hører bygger på journalistisk research og fakta. De kan indeholde fiktive elementer som for eksempel dialog. Hvis du kan lide min fortælling, så husk at gå ind og abonnér, give en anmeldelse og fortæl dine venner om Periodisk. Podcasten er blevet til med støtte fra Novo Nordisk Fonden. Hvis du vil vide mere kan du besøge vores website periodisk.dk Afsnittet er skrevet og tilrettelagt af Mads Gordon LadekarlTor Arnbjørn og Dorte Palle er producere René Slott står for lyddesign og mix Simon Bennebjerg er vært

The Uranium Series includes the radioactive elements on the period table that start with Francium and end with Plutonium as the last natural elements, those after, like Curium and Americium are synthetic elements made by radiating natural elements like plutonium.  Those needing the remedies from this series have genetic problems that finally end their bloodline.  They have neurological diversity and autism and the end of control for them is world domination.  They see magic as science and the domination of their will over others.  They feel they are struggling for domination over the galaxy and need to prove that that cannot be seen as a material form as seen in technology.  Technocrats are self-declared experts and see themselves as the elite that should rule the world because they decided so.  They have made robots in their image, but actually the more they can imitate the automatic mind through computers and robotics the less they truly have connections with the automatic brain, the system that keeps us genetically healthy.  For them Artificial intelligence medicine is their only choice, which may be true considering the fact that radioactive materials where never meant exist on Earth in these numbers.  Understanding the uranium series is understanding why the new world order run by technocrats to create a technocracy sees nuclear power as ‘green'. All views presented are based on credible sources, but they are explained through the individual's viewpoint.  Doing your own research while integrating new information is always important when forming your own viewpoint. The information in this podcast is not meant to address individual health needs, it is general in nature and should not be used as medical information for your health unless used in combination with your health practitioner.  

Nuclear technology is having its moment, according to Zeno Power cofounder and CEO Tyler Bernstein.NASA has used radioisotope tech since the 1960s, but the systems have historically been too expensive and heavy to be widely used. Zeno Power, which develops radioisotope power systems (RPS) that are lighter, more efficient, and more cost-effective than legacy systems, is trying to change that.How it works? Zeno Power's RPS works by converting the heat from decaying radioisotopes into electricity. Its initial system uses Strontium-90 (Sr-90), an abundant and affordable fuel that has been used in thousands of legacy RPSs. The core innovation is in the fuel design and shielding technology, a key issue given Sr-90's radioactive properties.The company has had a recent string of commercial successes, including a number of unannounced contracts, but some of the public wins are:A $30M STRATFI contract awarded in May to build a radioisotope-powered satellite for the U.S. Air Force by 2025.A $15M NASA Tipping Point award to develop an Americium-241 (Am-241) radioisotope Stirling generator (RSG) for long-duration lunar missions.This week's Pathfinder episode features Tyler Bernstein, Zeno Power's CEO. The company was founded in 2018 by Tyler and two other Vanderbilt undergrads after working on a project to design a nuclear reactor for a Boeing 777. Today, Mo and Tyler discuss:Zeno Power's origin storyA brief history of nuclear power in spaceThe benefits of using radioisotope power systemsThe future of fission and fusionAnd much more…This episode is brought to you by Epsilon3, software for complex engineering, testing, and operational procedures. Learn more at https://www.epsilon3.io/• Chapters • 00:00 - Intro and Ad Break 01:46 - Who is Tyler Bernstein and what is Zeno Power? 02:53 - Nuclear powered 77705:42 - How are nuclear reactors used today? 11:42 - A history of nuclear in space 14:04 - Nuclear regulations 17:48 - Zeno's core product and customer 21:33 - Disposal and containment during development 22:44 - Cost effectiveness vs traditional power systems24:43 - Epsilon3 Ad Break25:12 - Future of nuclear in space 28:37 - Customer targets outside of space 29:41 - Zeno's competitors 31:56 - Building a team around nuclear 38:05 - Zeno's products in 10 years 39:55 - State of nuclear energy today and its regulations 43:57 - Fusion vs Fission 46:19 - Other exciting space companies?• Show notes • Zeno Power's website — https://www.zenopower.com/Zeno Power's socials — https://twitter.com/zeno_powerMo's socials — https://twitter.com/itsmoislam Payload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@payloadspace Pathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes • About us • Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 15,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We're also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world. Payload began as a weekly email sent to a few friends and coworkers. Today, we're a team distributed across four time zones and two continents, publishing three media properties across multiple platforms: 1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern (https://newsletter.payloadspace.com/) 2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com) 3) Polaris, our weekly policy publication, hits inboxes Tuesday (https://polaris.payloadspace.com/) 4) Parallax, our weekly space science briefing, hits inboxes Thursday (https://parallax.payloadspace.com/)

Can Science Find An Antidote to Americium? With some poisons, there's an antidote — something you can take to block the effects of the poison, or to help remove it from your body. But when the harmful chemical is a radioactive element, options are limited. Iodine pills can be used to help block radioactive iodine I131 from being absorbed by the thyroid, but there aren't many other drugs that can help deal with contamination with other radioactive substances. One of the two existing medications can only be delivered via IV in a clinic. This week, the NIH announced the start of an early clinical trial for an oral drug delivered as a tablet that could potentially be used to bind and remove radioactive elements including plutonium, uranium and neptunium from the body. Rachel Feltman, editor at large at Popular Science, joins Ira to talk about that trial and other stories from the week in science, including an experimental universal flu vaccine, research into the amount of trace DNA humans shed every day, and an update on the planet Saturn's moon count.   Debunking Common Myths About Being Fat Weight loss is big business. Americans spend roughly $60 billion each year trying to lose weight, forking over cash for supplements, diet plans, and gym memberships. Yet somewhere between 90 to 95% of diets fail. Much of what we think we know about the relationship between weight and health is based on a series of assumptions that don't always match up with the latest science. Science Friday producer, Shoshannah Buxbaum talks with Aubrey Gordon, co-host of the podcast Maintenance Phase and author of the recent book “You Just Need To Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, about the history of the Body Mass Index or BMI. She discusses why the word “obesity” is tangled up in stereotypes about fat people, the flaws in commonly cited mortality statistics, and how anti-fat bias translates into worse healthcare for fat people. Read an excerpt of “You Just Need To Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People here.   What To Do When 500-1,000 Crows Roost In Your Neighborhood Laura Young was at a breaking point when she submitted a post titled “Request: Make 500-1,000 crows leave my street alone” to the subreddit r/lifeprotips in January. “I think you can tell that I was feeling very frustrated and running out of options and I clearly needed help,” she said. Starting last October, Laura's neighborhood in Baltimore was the site of a massive crow roost. And unlike past years' roosts, which usually only last a few weeks with a few dozen crows, this one showed no signs of leaving. “The numbers that they've attracted ever since then are unbelievable,” she said. “I mean, we're at the point where it is frightening to walk out at night.” According to Laura, hundreds of them filled the trees in the park outside her apartment. “And they're all screaming,” she said. “It is loud enough to wake you up indoors with all the windows closed. I don't think anyone on my block has slept past 6:00am in three months.” There was the noise, and then there was the poop: coating the streets, the buildings, and the cars. “It is just disgusting. I've never spent so much money on car washes in my entire life,” she laughed. To read the rest, visit sciencefriday.com.   To stay updated on all-things-science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.

How did this element get its name? Where would you find it? Can you make a nuclear bomb from a household item? 5 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present Podcastchemsmith1@gmail.comFacebookTwitter @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

V tomto podcaste budeme hovoriť o tom, že James Webb teleskop je konečne na ceste a aké sú od neho očakávania, o tom, že proteín istého mikróbu na seba naväzuje rádioaktívne látky a vyhodnotíme si tipy pre 2021, ktoré sme robili pred rokom. Pseudocast 537 na YouTube Zdroje James Webb Space TelescopeWhere Is James Webb?Soil Microbe Could Clean Up Nuclear WasteCharacterization of Americium and Curium Complexes with the Protein Lanmodulin: A Potential Macromolecular Mechanism for Actinide Mobility in the Environment Picture credit : NASA/Bill Ingalls, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

This podcast is about Americium-241 and its widespread use in ionization smoke detectors, along with its history.

Americium 241 isotope

Day 21 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where other podcasters and I attempt to do an episode every day in August.  The topic this year is isotopes. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com.     Email: chemsmith1 @ gmail

Day 21 of the Dog Days of Podcasting, where other podcasters and I attempt to do an episode every day in August. The topic this year is isotopes. Find out more at dogdaysofpodcasting.com. Email: chemsmith1 @ gmail

We all have our hobbies. Maybe it’s trains. Maybe it’s comic books. Maybe it’s scotch or fine wine. There’s going to be something you’re passionate about, maybe even obsessed about, that occupies your time away from your work.But what happens when our hobbies become a threat? And not just a threat to us, but maybe even a threat to our neighbors? Or—think bigger—what happens when our hobbies become a threat to national security?I’m Kevin Tumlinson, and this … is the Written World.I like quirky bits of history. I'm always on the lookout for odd little tidbits that make you scratch your head and wonder at what happened. And these can range on the spectrum of epicness—from little-known facts about the evolution of a turn of phrase, such as "jump the shark," to more profound revelations such as the historical presence of Vikings in North America, centuries before its discovery by Europeans.I even wrote a whole book about that last one.Sometimes, though, you come across some quirky history that makes you pause and makes you think, and may even makes you laugh and cringe a little.That's exactly how I feel about David Hahn, the "Radioactive Boy Scout."The thing about David's story that resonates most with me is that he grew up in a small town, without much of a social scene, and so he was forced to find his entertainment where he could. He was smart, and I like to think that we share that trait. The opinions of others may vary. And he was resourceful, another thing I believe (or hope) we have in common.Growing up in Commerce Township, Michigan, David was a Boy Scout. He participated in all the usual boy scout things, such as going hiking and camping, learning to tie knots, and doing good deeds for the community. By most signs, David was a good kid.He earned a lot of badges while in the scouts, but one of those badges set him on a path that would lead to infamy. David, it turns out, was one of only a few people to earn the Atomic Energy merit badge.David had a keen interest in atomic energy. He obsessed over it, studying everything he could find on the subject. And as it turned out, he could find a lot.When trips to the local library weren't producing enough information, David did what any bright and curious kid would do: He opened up a phonebook (this was the early 1990s ... Google wasn't quite a thing yet) and started making phone calls.He reached out to experts in the field, sometimes telling them he was a student working on a project, sometimes posing as a researcher or other official position. David would often write twenty or more letters per day, occasionally claiming to be a Physics teacher at Chippewa Valley High School. His letters went to experts and professionals all across the industry, including the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.In the end, not only did David learn exactly how something like a nuclear reactor might work, but he also managed to talk some experts into sending him some parts and supplies.What he needed, though, was fissionable material to work with. And lots of it.To get it, he got creative. He began salvaging radioactive material from household products. Americium from smoke detectors. Thorium from camping lanterns. Radium from clocks. Tritium from gunsights. Lithium from batteries.All items that could be obtained either by rummaging through the trash or buying from a local supermarket.With materials gathered, and plans cobbled together from books in the public library and documents sent by bonafide nuclear experts, David moved his operation to the shed behind his mother's house. And there, he made history.Using his pilfered materials, David built a small nuclear reactor, known as a "breeder reactor." David favored this design because, in a sense, it was self-sustaining.We won't go into the pure physics of this, for several reasons. But the short version is that as a breeder reactor uses nuclear fuel, the fission creates radioactive byproducts. So while energy is being generated, the "waste" collects, and this waste can also be used in a fission reaction. In a sense, a breeder reactor generates its own fuel. And though this is far from a perpetual energy source, it can result in a pretty long-lasting source of energy.More than most teenagers need, at any rate.David got incredibly far along in his experiments and in his build. In fact, he actually succeeded in building the breeder reactor, complete with a radioactive fuel source. And though it never came close to critical mass, it did start generating alarming levels of radiation—more than one thousand times normal background radiation.This got attention.Actually, David and his neighborhood have sheer luck to thank for the fact that his operation was discovered.In 1994, just before 3AM on a late August morning, local police were called to investigate claims that a teenager was stealing tires off of cars. They arrived to find David Hahn, who claimed he was just waiting for a friend.They didn't believe him, and ended up searching his vehicle. When they opened the trunk, they found a metal toolbox, locked and sealed with duct tape, as well as a large assortment of lanterns, clocks, smoke detectors, and more. There were also fifty small cubes of a mysterious gray powder, wrapped in aluminum foil. But what alarmed them most was when David cautioned them about the toolbox, claiming that it was radioactive.From there, things escalated quickly. The FBI was called, and they brought along experts from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (one of the same agencies David had contacted for his research). A Federal State of Nuclear Emergency was declared. There's something you don't see much, in a small town.Eventually, men in radiation suits arrived to dismantle David's miniature nuclear facility, carting up not only the reactor and the various materials used but also the tools, the furniture, even the walls of the shed itself. All of it was permeated with alarming levels of radiation, thanks to David's work.Frighteningly, some of that material ended up in the local landfill, thrown away in the neighborhood garbage before the Feds ever knew it was there.These days, the shed and its contents are buried in an undisclosed location in the Great Salt Lake Desert, where it resides next to a bevy of nuclear cast-off, including some of the early experiments that led to the development of the first atomic bomb.David Hahn wasn't a terrorist. He was a curious, intelligent, very resourceful boy who became fascinated with something to the degree of obsession. He pursued that obsession, learning everything he could until he did what many might consider impossible.David's story is both inspiring and horrifying. On the one hand, it's remarkable that someone so young could have worked out the details of this, in a pre-internet age, to a degree high enough to actually build this device. On the other hand, now that we live in the age of instant information, the implications of something like this are beyond frightening.I played with this idea a bit in my first thriller novel, The Coelho Medallion. In that book, the terrorist steal crates of smoke detectors, ultimately using the radioactive material within them to build a dirty bomb. It's a scenario that isn't all that farfetched. Which is why it works so well for fiction.The world is an interesting and sometimes frightening place. And as we advance in technology, and in our ability to discover and share information, it might be good to keep in mind the David Hahns of the world, and to stress to them the old adage, that just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.IF YOU ENJOYED THIS LITTLE TALE …You might enjoy a good thriller novel. And I happen to write thriller novels. Find something to keep you up all night at KevinTumlinson.com/books

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The Periodic Table of the Elements, The Economist and New Scientist, we dispute everything above Americium

The Periodic Table of the Elements, The Economist and New Scientist, we dispute everything above Americium

Professor Allan Blackman from AUT explores the chemical elements actinium and americium, and the Kakapo Files podcast catches up with the work of the island rangers.

Professor Allan Blackman from AUT explores the chemical elements actinium and americium, and the Kakapo Files podcast catches up with the work of the island rangers.

Invented during war, radioactive americium has become a bit of a do-gooder that is in most homes. Find out more with AUT's Allan Blackman in episode 3 of Elemental.

Invented during war, radioactive americium has become a bit of a do-gooder that is in most homes. Find out more with AUT's Allan Blackman in episode 3 of Elemental.

Invented during war, radioactive americium has become a bit of a do-gooder that is in most homes. Find out more with AUT's Allan Blackman in episode 3 of Elemental.

Today we talk about the benefits of the Electoral College, the Boston Molasses Flood, how to escape from quicksand, pranks with fake iPhones, a man disolving at Yellowstone, project Dead Drop, why we can't launch nuclear waste into the sun, correlation vs causation, and Enchroma glasses.Links from this episode: - Avoid chaos by keeping Electoral College | Opinion - Three Amigos-What Is A Plethora? - YouTube - A-G-L-E-T Song from Phineas and Ferb - YouTube - Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919 - How to Escape Quicksand: An Illustrated Guide - Fake iPhone* - Man Dissolved in Acidic Water After Trying to Soak in Yellowstone National Park Hot Pool - Dead Drops - Geocaching - Ever Wondered Why Don’t We Send Nuclear Waste To The Sun? Here Is Why It Is Not Possible - Smoke Detectors and Americium - Hilarious Graphs Prove That Correlation Isn’t Causation - First Time Reactions to EnChroma Glasses

What is radioactivity? Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia What is radioactivity? Including alpha, beta & gamma decay, half-life, background radiation & health effects (Physics.org) Types of radioactivity (Andy Darvill's Science Site) The difference between radioactivity & radiation (The Conversation) Cool chart that shows radiation doses for all sorts of things...including sleeping next to someone & eating a banana (xkcd) Alpha, beta & gamma penetration (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) Alpha, beta & gamma penetration (BBC, GCSE) Radioactive elements can 'decay' into other elements — here's the crazy decay chain for uranium-238 (Wikipedia) There are 29 radioactive elements on Earth & thousands more radioactive isotopes (Wikipedia) Some examples of radioactive isotopes or 'radionuclides' (Wikipedia) Some 'nuclides' are stable, but most are radioactive & decay — here's a list of >900 with half-lives from 50 million years (Wikipedia) The number 20 is a 'score' in ye olde talk (Wikipedia) What is uranium? (Jefferson Lab) What is plutonium? (Jefferson Lab) What is an alpha particle? (Physics Department, Idaho State University) During alpha decay, alpha particles (helium nuclei) are released from a radioactive atom's nucleus (Wikipedia) The crazy strong nuclear forces involved (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) Conservation of energy — it can neither be lost nor gained (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Energy equals mass: e=mc^2 & all that malarky (livescience) Alpha particles are the least harmful in that they are large & can be easily stopped by e.g. paper; however, if ingested they're super dangerous (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) Radioactive elements are inherently unstable (Reference) Sometimes you have to wait a loooooong time for a radioactive element to spit out a particle, like 4.5 billion years (Wikipedia) Everything is radioactive in the periodic table from 83 (bismuth) onwards (Wikipedia) Why is radioactive decay random & spontaneous? (I'm a scientist get me out of here) Schrödinger's cat (IFL Science) What is polonium? (Jefferson Lab) What is alchemy? (livescience) What is an isotope? (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) What is an isotope? (The Conversation) Fact or fiction?: Lead can be turned into gold (Scientific American) It sounds like isotopes can indeed have too few neutrons, as well as too many (The Naked Scientists) What is a beta particle? (Idaho State University) Beta radioactivity (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) An electron is ~1,800 times smaller than a proton (Jefferson Lab) What is a gamma ray? (Idaho State University) Gamma rays consist of high-energy photons (Wikipedia) Gamma radioactivity (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) Ionising radiation "carries enough energy to free electrons from atoms or molecules, thereby ionising them" (Wikipedia) How radiation sickness works (Science, How Stuff Works) Too much ionising radiation is bad...but humans have evolved to be able to cope with a certain amount of background radiation (World Nuclear Association) Natural background radiation (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Association) Bananas are a bit radioactive because they contain potassium: The banana equivalent dose (Wikipedia) Still cleaning up: 30 years after the Chernobyl disaster (The Atlantic) Flying and health: Cosmic radiation exposure for casual flyers and aircrew (Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency) Health threats for astronauts from cosmic rays (Wikipedia) How does lead absorb radiation like x-rays and gamma rays? (The Naked Scientists) How do x-rays work? (Wonderopolis) Radiation therapy employs x-rays, gamma rays & charged particles to kill cancer cells (National Cancer Institute) The 'gamma knife' delivers precise beams of radiation to diseased brain tissue or tumour from a large number of directions (Imaginis) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans don't use radiation (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering) Computed tomography (CT) scans use ionising radiation (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering) Positron emission tomography (PET) scans use radiopharmaceuticals (National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering) Alexander Litvinenko: Profile of murdered Russian spy — the guy who drank tea with polonium-210 in it (BBC News) Want some polonium-209? It'll set you back USD$3,200 per microcurie (Jefferson Lab) Sydney's Lucas Heights reactor to ramp up nuclear medicine production to meet world demand (ABC News) Synchrotrons are extremely powerful sources of x-rays (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) The Australian synchrotron is in Clayton (Australian Synchrotron) Ikea Springvale How does a nuclear power station work? (Explain That Stuff!) A discussion about whether Mark Watney from 'The Martian' had a high cancer risk after heating up his little car with a radioactive source (Quora) How to protect astronauts from space radiation on Mars (NASA) Radioactive waste management (World Nuclear Association) Nuclear agencies are searching for the signs, language & solutions that will warn our descendants to stay away (FT Magazine) Cockroaches have an exoskeleton so they probably wouldn't know what a skull & cross bones are (Wikipedia) Thaw could release Cold War-era radioactive waste buried under Greenland's ice (ABC News) Greeland is an autonomous country within the Danish realm (Wikipedia) Nuclear power in space (Wikipedia) How do nuclear submarines work? (Science, How Stuff Works) The nuclear submarine that can remain underwater for 25 years (Wired) 'Letters of last resort' are written by all new UK Prime Ministers, with instructions to submarine commanding officers on what to do if a nuclear strike wipes out the Government (Wikipedia) Billionaires are buying submarines (The Daily Mail UK) Can nuclear waste be neutralised by bacteria? (Engineering.com) Iggy Pop is indeed alive & currently 69 (IggyPop.com) Nirvana David Bowie Ziggy Stardust (Wikipedia) Billy Joel Kim Wilde Atomic clocks & cesium...not radioactive even though they sound like it (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) Atomic clocks (Wikipedia) Microwaves are not radioactive (Cancer Research UK) Mobile phones are not radioactive — they emit electromagnetic radiation, which is very different, & they also don't emit enough energy to break the molecular bonds inside cells (Scientific American) Mobile phones are not radioactive (Skeptic) Here's the patch you stick on your phone that apparently saves you from the evil 'radiation' — decide for yourself (cellsafe) Ionising (bad one) vs non-ionising radiation (Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency) UV light is ionising radiation & can break chemical bonds in cells (livescience) Suffering endures for 'Radium Girls' who painted watches in the '20s (Hartford Web Publishing) The Bachelor, Australia (Channel Ten) Corrections An exact description of how the Americium-241 in smoke detectors works (Wikipedia) Bismuth's half-life is estimated to be more than a billion times the age of the universe (Wikipedia) Billy Idol isn't chubbsy at all...sorry Billy, you still got it (BillyIdol.net) The metre was originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator (not Paris) to the North Pole (Wikipedia) One of the main dreams of alchemy was to turn lead (atomic number 82) into gold (atomic number 79), which would have meant losing protons, not gaining (livescience) Cheeky review? (If we may be so bold) It'd be amazing if you gave us a short review...it'll make us easier to find in iTunes: Click here for instructions. You're the best! We owe you a free hug and/or a glass of wine from our cellar

Man hätte heute ja über Rauchmelder und Americium-241 sprechen können... oder über Primzahlen (mal wieder). Statt dessen geht es kurz und knackig um den Song 241 der Band "Reel Big Fish". So kann's gehen

The 55 gallon drum of plutonium-contaminated nuclear weapons waste from Los Alamos National Lab that “popped its lid” and released Plutonium and Americium into the environment on Valentine’s Day, 2014. NUMNUTZ OF THE WEEK: Sure, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), the U.S. without nuclear would be “unthinkable” — but think about your state’s Boone Dam, with...

INTERVIEWS: At Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP Site) near Carlsbad, NM, Department of Energy restarts exhaust fan exposed to Plutonium and Americium during February 14, 2014 radiation leak; Don Hancock of Southwest Resource and Information Center provides us with an update and insights. One From the Vault:  Nuclear Hotseat #7, July 26, 2011Jon Solomon of...

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the supposedly secure Y-12 nuclear facility; Second safety-conscious Hanford manager fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety! Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors receive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees; Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours; high levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture; and Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant... then don't know what to do with it. Oy!

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the supposedly secure Y-12 nuclear facility; Second safety-conscious Hanford manager fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety! Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors receive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees; Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours; high levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture; and Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant... then don't know what to do with it. Oy!

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. And Chizo Hamada shares international Fukushima 3 Anniversary events. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the supposedly secure Y-12 nuclear facility; Second safety-conscious Hanford manager fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety! Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors reeive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees; Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours; high levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture; and Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant... then don't know what to do with it. Oy!

INTERVIEWS: Don Hancock from Southwest Research and Information Center returns to update us on the leak of Plutonium and Americium from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad New Mexico. Dr. Catherine Euler of Mamabears Against Nukes gives us the rundown on how to interpret the WIPP radiation data. Mimi German, Ms. RadCast Herself, offers insight into those pesky "now they work/now they don't" EPA radiation monitors. And Chizo Hamada shares international Fukushima 3 Anniversary events. PLUS: 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice asks the judge to sentence her to life in prison for her non-violent peace demonstration at the supposedly secure Y-12 nuclear facility; Second safety-conscious Hanford manager fired after she spoke out for - wait for it! - safety! Georgia's planned new Vogtle reactors reeive $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees; Fukushima Unit 4 cooling system stops for four hours; high levels of cesium found in Fukushima reservoirs used for agriculture; and Ukraine rebels capture Rosnov Nuclear Power Plant... then don't know what to do with it. Oy!

Episode Two Hundred Forty One: "They're dangerous. They have Americium-241 in them." This week, Frank is back and we discuss how his play went and the details you don't think about when producing your first show. Then we talk some news and a little more parenting stuff. Music this week is from: The Art of War Flight of the Conchords Kiss Follow Chris, Frank and Scott on twitter Send feedback to areyouseriouspodcast@gmail.com or head to areyouseriouspodcast.com and click the feedback tab to send us a voice message. Here's the link to our live show channel on ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/are-you-serious-podcast

Cepyayınımızın bu ayki konuğu, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Kimya Bölümü öğretim üyesi Y. Doç. Dr. Salih Özçubukçu. Dr. Salih Özçubukçu Salih, geçen nisan ayından bu yana ODTÜ'de kendi laboratuvarında çalışıyor. Kendisi ile hem nükleer atıkların ayrıştırılmasına yönelik araştırmaları, hem de popüler bilim çalışmaları üzerine söyleştik. Kendisine söyleşi için bir kez daha teşekkür ederiz. Notlar Bahsi geçen makale: Salih Özçubukçu vd., 2011. Selective Recognition of Americium by Peptide-Based Reagents. Inorganic Chemistry 50:7937. Söyleşide adı geçen lantanitler ve aktinitlerin periyodik cetveldeki yerlerini Şekil 1'de görebilirsiniz. Bunların asıl yeri ana kısımdaki açık pembe ve pembe renkli boş karelerdir, ancak cetveli fazla genişletmemek için cetvelin altında iki ek sıraya yerleştirilirler. Şekil 1. Periyodik cetvel. Katalizör dergisi sitesi Bahsettiğim Anadolu Üniversitesi araştırmasının BBC Türkçe'deki duyurusu için buraya bakabilirsiniz. Ayrıca sempozyum bildirisini de okuyabilirsiniz: Hakan Ergül, Emre Gökalp ve İncilay Cangöz, 2010. Eski yoksulluk, yeni medya: Yoksullukla baş etmede yeni medya nasıl kullanılıyor (mu)? Uluslararası Yolsuzlukla Mücadele Stratejileri Sempozyumu, İstanbul, 13-15 Ekim 2010. s. 133-144. Salih'in ODTÜ'deki Popüler Kültürde Kimya dersinin sayfası  ve o sayfadan eğitici (!) bir kısa video:

Science writer Brian Clegg on the difficult to pronounce element whose discovery was announced on a children's radio quiz

The Show Notes:NEW Intro (oooh!)Ordering noodles at Sogo with Ms. InformationReligious Moron of the Week - Church of God Choir, from Springfield, Ohiomanganese is...Future Geo interruptsmanganese is Mn not MgASK GEORGE- morals- Maria from Flickr - Stephen Fry, childhood books,   fundamentalism- Marvin from Austin, TexasOccasional Songs for the Periodic Table- Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium, Americium,   Curium, Berkelium, Californium, Einsteinium Mortimer calls yet again, once moreSkepticality InterviewShow Close ...................................... Mentioned in the show: Geo's Skepticality interview; the story of the Faithful Elephants; and Soccergirl, Incorporated. And as always: George's blog, website, flickr, and myspace page. Have a comment on the show, a topic for Minoishe Interroberg, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line at geo@geologicrecords.net or through his blog. Non-Coloring Book is now online at Lulu and available for purchase as both print and download.