Americium241 Self Illuminating Light Source

[onthecuttingedge2005]

This is a future project, I will try to have one made before the end of the next month of December, I will make a You-Tube video and or take some pictures.

there are stricter regulations with 241Am and I will follow those Regulations for the experiment.

this self illuminating light source should produce white light by ionizing the white phosphor coating inside the tube.

241Am is a strong Alpha emitter, 3x times more Alpha radiation than Radium.
241Am emits very low Beta emissions.
241Am produces extremely low gamma radiation just above back ground radiation.

after building this device it is advised to throw it away as specified by Nuclear regulations. it is strickly an experiment on Radio Light sources.

[lumen]

Probably work!
Too bad they don't use AM241 in smoke detectors anymore.
Won't you also need to evacuate the tubes to increase the emission range?

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Probably work!
Too bad they don't use AM241 in smoke detectors anymore.
Won't you also need to evacuate the tubes to increase the emission range?

I have a couple of old smoke detectors I am replacing in a month or so, after proof of concept I will see about evacuating the tube. it should in theory work even without evacuation but ionizing efficiency will vary with Tor values.

if it is successful I will see about increasing its luminosity.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

if the white phosphorus coating does well then I will use white phosphorus as my N doped Photovoltaic coating since white Phosphorus doped into silicon becomes a photovoltaic material, it will convert Ionizing UV to electricity plus white light given off by the excited state via Ionizing radio Isotope.

if I can connect the Aluminum base directly in contact with the white phosphorus coating I will check both Aluminum bases with a meter to see if I can get photovoltaic activity producing current between both bases.

I will be using a pretty small fluorescent tube for the experiment.

I am just collecting my thoughts for now until it's time to put everything together for testing.

[gadgetmall]

Kind of like the tritium Light i have .