Estimation of 99Mo production rates from natural molybdenum in research reactors
| Autor: | Danas Ridikas, Andreas Kling, Y. Chakrova, Van Dong Duong, Tej Singh, S. Baytelesov, N. M. A. Mohamed, A. H. Fortunato, L. Muñoz, P. S. Bedregal Salas, Radojko Jaćimović, Cho Eun-Ha, Menno Blaauw, R. Dahalan, Dénes Párkányi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Předmět: |
Medical diagnostic
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Nuclear engineering chemistry.chemical_element 010403 inorganic & nuclear chemistry 01 natural sciences Article 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Analytical Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Tc-99 m production Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Spectroscopy Radionuclide Chemistry Radiochemistry Epithermal neutron self-shielding Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Epithermal neutron Pollution 0104 chemical sciences Nuclear Energy and Engineering Molybdenum Research reactor utilization Saturation (chemistry) Mo-99 |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 311(1) |
| ISSN: | 0236-5731 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10967-016-5036-6 |
| Popis: | Molybdenum-99 is one of the most important radionuclides for medical diagnostics. In 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency organized a round-robin exercise where the participants measured and calculated specific saturation activities achievable for the 98Mo(n,γ)99Mo reaction. This reaction is of interest as a means to locally, and on a small scale, produce 99Mo from natural molybdenum. The current paper summarises a set of experimental results and reviews the methodology for calculating the corresponding saturation activities. Activation by epithermal neutrons and also epithermal neutron self-shielding are found to be of high importance in this case. |
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