Reactor production of Thorium-229

Boll, Rose Ann; Murphy, Karen E.; Denton, David L.; Garland, Marc A.; Mirzadeh, Saed; Hogle, Susan; Owens, Allison

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2016.05.002

Title: Reactor production of Thorium-229

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Limited availability of ²²⁹Th for clinical applications of ²¹³Bi necessitates investigation of alternative production routes. In reactor production, ²²⁹Th is produced from neutron transmutation of ²²⁶Ra, ²²⁸Ra, ²²⁷Ac and ²²⁸Th. Here, we evaluate irradiations of ²²⁶Ra, ²²⁸Ra, and ²²⁷Ac targets at the ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor.

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Boll, Rose Ann ^[1]; Murphy, Karen E. ^[1]; Denton, David L. ^[1]; Tamara J. Haverlock; Garland, Marc A. ^[1]; Mirzadeh, Saed ^[1]; Hogle, Susan ^[1]; Owens, Allison ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Publication Date:: 2016-05-03

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)

OSTI Identifier:: 1253240

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1358796

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 114; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0969-8043

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; Thorium-229; Thorium-228; Actinium-225; Actinium-227; Radium-226; Radium-228; neutron reactions; isochain; high flux isotope reactor

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                    Boll, Rose Ann, Murphy, Karen E., Denton, David L., Tamara J. Haverlock, Garland, Marc A., Mirzadeh, Saed, Hogle, Susan, and Owens, Allison. Reactor production of Thorium-229.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Boll, Rose Ann, Murphy, Karen E., Denton, David L., Tamara J. Haverlock, Garland, Marc A., Mirzadeh, Saed, Hogle, Susan, & Owens, Allison. Reactor production of Thorium-229.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2016.05.002

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                    Boll, Rose Ann, Murphy, Karen E., Denton, David L., Tamara J. Haverlock, Garland, Marc A., Mirzadeh, Saed, Hogle, Susan, and Owens, Allison. Tue .  
"Reactor production of Thorium-229".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2016.05.002.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1253240.

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  title        = {Reactor production of Thorium-229},

  author       = {Boll, Rose Ann and Murphy, Karen E. and Denton, David L. and Tamara J. Haverlock and Garland, Marc A. and Mirzadeh, Saed and Hogle, Susan and Owens, Allison},

  abstractNote = {Limited availability of 229Th for clinical applications of 213Bi necessitates investigation of alternative production routes. In reactor production, 229Th is produced from neutron transmutation of 226Ra, 228Ra, 227Ac and 228Th. Here, we evaluate irradiations of 226Ra, 228Ra, and 227Ac targets at the ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.apradiso.2016.05.002},

  journal      = {Applied Radiation and Isotopes},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 114,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2016},

  month        = {5}

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