HEU and LEU MTR fuel elements as target materials for the production of fission molybdenum
Creators
- 1. Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe, Cyclotrone Lab., Karlsruhe (Germany)
Description
The processing of irradiated MTR-fuels for the production of fission nuclides for nuclear medicine presents a significantly increasing task in the field of chemical separation technology of high activity levels. By far the most required product is MO-99, the mother nuclide of Tc-99m which is used in over 90% of the organ function tests in nuclear medicine. Because of the short half life of Mo-99 (66 h) the separation has to be carried out from shortly cooled neutron irradiated U-targets. The needed product purity, the extremely high radiation level, the presence of fission gases like xenon-133 and of volatile toxic isotopes such as iodine-131 and its compounds in kCi-scale require a sophisticated process technology
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Reduced enrichment for research and test reactors: Proceedings
- Imprint Pagination
- 376 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 313-333.
- Report number
- ANL--RERTR/TM-19
Conference
- Title
- 1992 international meeting on reduced enrichment for research and test reactors.
- Dates
- 27 Sep - 1 Oct 1992.
- Place
- Roskilde (Denmark).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 26032405
- Subject category
- S38: RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION; MODERATELY ENRICHED URANIUM; MOLYBDENUM 99; TEST REACTORS; URANIUM SILICIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; ACTINIDES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; ELEMENTS; ENRICHED URANIUM; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPE ENRICHED MATERIALS; ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; METALS; MOLYBDENUM ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; SILICIDES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TEST FACILITIES; URANIUM; URANIUM COMPOUNDS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-9209266--.