Production of fission and activation product isotopes at Sandia National Laboratories
- Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
The mission of the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) and the Hot-Cell Facility has recently changed from support of defense and other programs to support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) isotope production and distribution program (IPDP). SNL`s primary role, in support of IPDP, is ensuring a reliable supply of {sup 99}Mo to the U.S. health care system. SNL will also play a role to complement the isotope production of other DOE reactor facilities such as High-Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the High-Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven, New York, and the Advanced Test Reactor in Idaho. The unique characteristics that the SNL facilities offer to the IPDP facility capability are simplicity, multiple irradiation locations, ready irradiation space access, and co-located hot-cell facilities capable of processing a short decay fission product stream. The SNL {sup 99}Mo effort is characterized elsewhere, and this paper is intended to describe the production of additional isotopes that can be produced for medical and other uses that should start soon after the {sup 99}Mo capability has been established. Isotope production in the SNL facilities is through fission or by neutron activation.
- OSTI ID:
- 552684
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-971125--
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 77; ISSN 0003-018X; ISSN TANSAO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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