Below ~30 keV the detector signal is dominated by X-ray fluorescence (L-shell) and artifacts not modelled in training data. This spurious low-energy continuum caused the model to misidentify Am-241 as Th-232/U-235. Masking channels <30 keV before inference fixes Am-241 detection from 2% to 99%. Same masking applied in the synthetic spectrum generator for consistent retraining. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>