Talk:Curium

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beccccca jones Article changed over to new Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements format by mav 04:07, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC). Elementbox converted 11:36, 17 July 2005 by Femto (previous revision was that of 13:45, 9 July 2005).

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Some of the text in this entry was rewritten from Los Alamos National Laboratory - Curium. Additional text was taken directly from the Elements database 20001107 (via dict.org) and WordNet (r) 1.7 (via dict.org). Data for the table were obtained from the sources listed on the subject page and Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements but were reformatted and converted into SI units.

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Curium-247 - ideal small reactor/nuke power source?

It said to have "bare sphere" critical mass of 7 kg (Pu-239 is 10 kg (or 16 kg - Wikipedia disagees with itself on this)), yet half-life is 15 million years. Should it be mentioned? Where mass and W/kg are very critical (e.g. nuclear propulsion in space), it may make it rather useful, I think. (closest contenders: Np-236: 7 kg, 154000 years; californium-249, californium-251: 5-6 kg, <1000 years).

Curium: watts per gram correction

From the research I see curium 242 gives off 120watts per gram not 2! [1] --BerserkerBen 03:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Also http://aaa.nevada.edu/pdffiles/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20Task%2011%20QR%2001-2.pdf - more than I ever wanted to know about thermal effects in curium, but it's a nice reference and confirms the approx. 120 W/g for Cm-242, so I'll put it here. Femto 19:42, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]