Journal article
A strategy for intensive production of molybdenum-99 isotopes for nuclear medicine using CANDU reactors
Abstract
Technetium-99m is an important medical isotope utilized worldwide in nuclear medicine and is produced from the decay of its parent isotope, molybdenum-99. The online fueling capability and compact fuel of the CANDU(®)(1) reactor allows for the potential production of large quantities of (99)Mo. This paper proposes (99)Mo production strategies using modified target fuel bundles loaded into CANDU fuel channels. Using a small group of channels a …
Authors
Morreale AC; Novog DR; Luxat JC
Journal
Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 20–34
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
1 2012
DOI
10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.07.007
ISSN
0969-8043