A large amount of the extremely expensive metal americium was found at a secret operation by the District Prosecutor's Office in Plovdiv, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the state agency "National Security", bTV learned.
Americium was discovered in the region of Karlovo.
It is about the extremely expensive americium
The action of the services and the prosecutor's office was carried out yesterday, and the actions were personally coordinated by the acting chief prosecutor Borislav Sarafov.
Firemen with special equipment assisted in the discovery.
What is Americia?
Americium is a type of isotope that is stored under special conditions because of its ionizing radiation.
It is an artificially obtained radioactive chemical element - in 1944 by Glenn Seaborg of Berkeley, California, and his colleagues at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, as part of the “Manhattan” project. This is clear from a publication of Columbia College in Chicago.
Americium is a hard metal with a silver-white color and a white luster, malleable and spheroidal. It glows in the dark and is quite malleable. It melts at 1175 degrees Celsius. It darkens slowly in dry air at room temperature.
Americium can be used to make a nuclear weapon, although it is difficult to produce and requires the presence of plutonium.