How much does 1 gram of californium?

Answer 1

In 1999, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was charging $60 per microgram for californium. And that, my friends, is all the californium you will ever need. You could multiply this out to get the price per pound (it's in the billions of dollars) but that's kinda futile since they haven't made a whole pound of it and, considering that it's made in milligram quantities, they probably never will make a pound of it.

There are some cool things you can do with californium - they sell these little soil density testing machines to civil engineers who use them to determine if the ground is hard enough to build on, it's used in oil production, and things like that. Those instruments only have a microgram of californium in them, and you must be licensed with the NRC before you can buy the machine.

Answer 2

Californium only costs 27 million dollars per gram! What a bargain! Makes you want to buy some, right? Why it is so expensive is because it is expensive to make: you would have to get an atom smasher (don't look at me at what that is, go find it yourself) to be able to create Californium by continuously bombarding (or as I like to think of it, smashing) Curium ( not Cerium) with alpha particles of Helium (the equivalent of the nucleus of a Helium atom or a positively charged particle consisting of 2 neutrons and 2 protons) until you get the end product of Californium (and yes, I'm sure stuff explodes, too). Due to its pricey sales tag, the government can only buy Californium by the milligram (actually I don't know if the government has/ does/ will buy this stuff). I don't know how I know and can write all this, but I just can. :)

Answer 3

Californium-252 is now being offered for sale by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (O.R.N.L.) at a cost of $50/ug and Californium-249 at a cost of $160/ug plus packing charges. This comes out to $50,000,000/g and $160,000,000/g respectively.

Answer 4

Californium 252- $1,000 per micro gram, or $350 billion a pound!

Answer 5

A kilogram of californium doesn't exist ! An estimated price will be 10e+10 $.

Answer 6

An estimated price will be 10 000 000 $/g.

Answer 7

The price of calformium-252 is estimated at 10 $/microgram.

Answer 8

it costs about a Hollywood

Answer 9

An estimated price will be 10 000 000 $.