The “lipstick” plutonium source from a KI-1 smoke detector is wrapped in cadmium and then stuffed in a copper pipe. These metals selectively attenuate the 59-keV Am-241 gamma energy.
Smoke detector source in graded Cd and Cu attenuator
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