[GulliverSwift]

Do you know why it's called americium? Was it discovered or developed in America?

[July 4th]

Found this: Americium was the fourth transuranic element to be discovered; the isotope 241Am was identified by Seaborg, James, Morgan, and Ghiorso late in 1944 at the wartime Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago as the result of successive neutron capture reactions by plutonium isotopes in a nuclear reactor.

[techcor]

I believe it was discovered in Chicago and was named after all of the Americas (North and South)

mvpel, you're thinking of americium 241 it's much much weaker brother. Do a search on google and it'll bring up the "Two weeks to Mars" article.

The "coherent nuclear resonant scattering" would be even better because it can be turned off or on.