Radioisotope research and development at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Conference · Fri Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:141155

Peterson, E J ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (United States)

Throughout its fifty year history, Los Alamos National Laboratory has conducted research and development in the production, isolation, purification, and application of radioactive isotopes. Initially this work supported the weapons development mission of the Laboratory. Over the years the work has evolved to support basic and applied research in many diverse fields, including nuclear medicine, biomedical studies, materials science, environmental research and the physical sciences. In the early 1970s people in the Medical Radioisotope Research Program began irradiating targets at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) to investigate the production and recovery of medically important radioisotopes. Since then spallation production using the high intensity beam at LAMPF has become a significant source of many important radioisotopes. Los Alamos posesses other facilities with isotope production capabilities. Examples are the Omega West Reactor (OWR) and the Van de Graaf Ion Beam Facility (IBF). Historically these facilities have had limited availability for radioisotope production, but recent developments portend a significant radioisotope production mission in the future.

• OSTI ID: 141155
• Report Number(s): CONF-930304--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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40 CHEMISTRY
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OWR REACTOR
RADIOISOTOPES
RESEARCH PROGRAMS