Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub?

["Steven Mills" <barycenter@earthlink.net>]

From: Warrend Greenway <dub@linuxmail.org>
> I read about a kid in the news, years ago, who made a thermopile type
"reactor" (not actually a reactor) from >fire alarms...............

I heard about this, too. I believe the isotope in those firealarms is
Americium.
( I could be wrong ). They're supposed to have very short half-lives, but
still
dangerous to handle.

I thought about putting one from those firealarms into a homemade
cloudchamber.

--Steve