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How do people get californium?

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∙ 13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

For the first time californium is obtained with the nuclear reaction:
Cm-242 + He--------------Cf-245 + n
The important isotope Cf-252 is obtained in nuclear reactors after a long time irradiation of plutonium with neutrons.

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