Only in ionising smoke alarmsAnd even then, it's such a small amount, literally a spec of dust amount of Americium.
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Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:25,
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That didn't stop one boy in America making a dangerous mini nuclear reactor with it.It did take several hundred alarms to do it. You'll be pleased to hear that he did successfully get his radiology scouting badge before the federal authorities had to come in and decontaminate the shed. They speculated that he may have made a few molecules of uranium.
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Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13:31,
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