National Biomedical Tracer Facility. Project definition study

Technical Report · Tue Feb 14 04:00:00 EST 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/527922· OSTI ID:527922

Schafer, R

We request a $25 million government-guaranteed, interest-free loan to be repaid over a 30-year period for construction and initial operations of a cyclotron-based National Biomedical Tracer Facility (NBTF) in North Central Texas. The NBTF will be co-located with a linear accelerator-based commercial radioisotope production facility, funded by the private sector at approximately $28 million. In addition, research radioisotope production by the NBTF will be coordinated through an association with an existing U.S. nuclear reactor center that will produce research and commercial radioisotopes through neutron reactions. The combined facilities will provide the full range of technology for radioisotope production and research: fast neutrons, thermal neutrons, and particle beams (H{sup -}, H{sup +}, and D{sup +}). The proposed NBTF facility includes an 80 MeV, 1 mA H{sup -} cyclotron that will produce proton-induced (neutron deficient) research isotopes.

• Research Organization: North Texas Research Inst., Denton, TX (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG05-94ER61875
• OSTI ID: 527922
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/61875--T1; ON: DE97009346
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PARTICLE BEAMS
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