A new radioisotope - production research facility utilizing ion beams from AVF cyclotron

Conference · Sat Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:41901

Sekine, T; Matsuoka, H; Shigeta, N; Koizumi, M; Osa, A ^[1]; Izumo, M; Kobayashi, K; Hashimoto, K; Hatsukawa, Y ^[2]

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1. Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Takasaki (Japan)
2. Tokai-Mura, Ibaraki (Japan); and others

At the Takasaki-site of JAERI, an AVF cyclotron has been constructed for advanced radiation technology research. From the cyclotron equipped with a multicusp ion source and ECR ion sources, beams of light ions and heavy ions are available for production of a broad range of radioisotopes. A radioisotope production facility utilizing these ion beams has been constructed for research and development of potentially useful radioisotopes. At the Tokai site, JAERI has nuclear reactors and a tandem accelerator. Using the reactors, JAERI has established production techniques of various radioisotopes and supplied products across Japan for medical, industrial and scientific use. As to isotopes to be produced by charged-particle reactions, production methods have been developed for isotopes such as {sup 95m}Tc and {sup 237}Pu which are used as tracer in research of the technetium and plutonium behavior in the nuclear fuel cycle and the environment. At the Takasaki site, production methods will be developed for potentially useful radioisotopes mainly in medicine and life science. For this purpose, solid, gas and liquids targets must be irradiated and chemically processed to produce the isotopes of light and heavy elements and their labelled compounds. The Takasaki facility consists of an irradiation apparatus, a solid-target transfer system, shielded cells for solid target and shielded cells for labelled-compound synthesis with gas and liquid targets.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• OSTI ID: 41901
• Report Number(s): BNL--61149; CONF-9309170--; ON: DE95006634
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

40 CHEMISTRY
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
55 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
BASIC STUDIES
ACCELERATOR FACILITIES
CYCLOTRONS
DESIGN
ION BEAM TARGETS
ION BEAMS
ISOTOPE PRODUCTION
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY