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The Fission-Based  99Mo Production Process ROMOL-99 and Its Application to PINSTECH Islamabad

Creators

  • 1. GSG International GmbH, Eichenstraße 12, 8808 Pfäffikon, Switzerland
  • 2. IAF Radioökologie GmbH, Karpatenstraße 20, 01326 Dresden, Germany
  • 3. Foundation University Islamabad, 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 4. Isotope Production Division, Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH), P.O. Nilore Islamabad, 45650 Nilore, Pakistan

Description

An innovative process for fission based99Mo production has been developed under Isotope Technologies Dresden (ITD) GmbH (former Hans Wälischmiller GmbH (HWM), Branch Office Dresden), and its functionality has been tested and proved at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH), Islamabad. Targets made from uranium aluminum alloy clad with aluminum were irradiated in the core of Pakistan Research Reactor-1 (PARR-1). In the mean time more than 50 batches of fission molybdenum-99 (99Mo) have been produced meeting the international purity/pharmacopoeia specifications using this ROMOL-99 process. The process is based on alkaline dissolution of the neutron irradiated targets in presence of NaNO3, chemically extracting the99Mo from various fission products and purifying the product by column chromatography. This ROMOL-99 process will be described in some detail.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1155/2013/932546;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations
Journal Volume
2013
Journal Page Range
1-9
ISSN
1687-6075

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Subject category
S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; S38: RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY;
Descriptors DEI
ALUMINIUM; ALUMINIUM ALLOYS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLADDING; DISSOLUTION; FISSION; FISSION PRODUCTS; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION REACTORS; LIQUID COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM 99; PAKISTAN; SPECIFICATIONS; TECHNETIUM 99 TARGET
Descriptors DEC
ALLOYS; ASIA; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DEPOSITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IRRADIATION REACTORS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; METALS; MOLYBDENUM ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; REFRACTORY METALS; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SURFACE COATING; TARGETS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS

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