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Title: Harvesting 88Zr from heavy-ion beam irradiated tungsten at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Abstract

Tungsten is a commonly used material at many heavy-ion beam facilities, and it often becomes activated due to interactions with a beam. Many of the activation products are useful in basic and applied sciences if they can be recovered efficiently. In order to develop the radiochemistry for harvesting group (IV) elements from irradiated tungsten, a heavy-ion beam containing 88Zr was embedded into a stack of tungsten foils at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and a separation methodology was devised to recover the 88Zr. The foils were dissolved in 30% hydrogen peroxide, and the 88Zr was chemically purified from the tungsten matrix and from other co-implanted radionuclides (such as 85Sr and 88Y) using strong cation-exchange (AG MP-50) chromatographic resin in sulfuric acid media. The procedure provided 88Zr in approximately 60 mL 0.5 M sulfuric acid with no detectable radio-impurities. The overall recovery yield for 88Zr was (92.3 ± 1.2)%. In conclusion, this proof-of-concept experiment has facilitated the development of methodologies to harvest from tungsten and tungsten-alloy parts that are regularly irradiated at heavy-ion beam facilities.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [1]
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  1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (United States); Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI (United States)
  2. Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY (United States); Graduate Center of the City University of New York, NY (United States)
  3. Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI (United States)
  4. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  5. Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY (United States); Graduate Center of the City University of New York, NY (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Office of Isotope R&D and Production (IRP)
OSTI Identifier:
2204956
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 2234254
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-856334
Journal ID: ISSN 0969-8043; 1067260
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; PHY-1102511; SC0021220; SC0020370; SC0020161; 22-ERD-020; 23-SI-004
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 197; Journal ID: ISSN 0969-8043
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; 07 ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCES; 88Zr; Radiochemical separation; Isotope harvesting; Tungsten

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Satija, Samridhi, Domnanich, Katharina A., Bence, Jake A., Vyas, Chirag K., Abel, E. Paige, Kleinfeldt, Chloe, Essenmacher, Scott, Kalman, Morgan, Walker, Wesley, Despotopulos, John D., Scielzo, Nicholas D., Shusterman, Jennifer A., and Severin, Gregory W. Harvesting 88Zr from heavy-ion beam irradiated tungsten at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. United States: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110831.
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Satija, Samridhi, Domnanich, Katharina A., Bence, Jake A., Vyas, Chirag K., Abel, E. Paige, Kleinfeldt, Chloe, Essenmacher, Scott, Kalman, Morgan, Walker, Wesley, Despotopulos, John D., Scielzo, Nicholas D., Shusterman, Jennifer A., & Severin, Gregory W. Harvesting 88Zr from heavy-ion beam irradiated tungsten at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110831
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Satija, Samridhi, Domnanich, Katharina A., Bence, Jake A., Vyas, Chirag K., Abel, E. Paige, Kleinfeldt, Chloe, Essenmacher, Scott, Kalman, Morgan, Walker, Wesley, Despotopulos, John D., Scielzo, Nicholas D., Shusterman, Jennifer A., and Severin, Gregory W. Fri . "Harvesting 88Zr from heavy-ion beam irradiated tungsten at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110831. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2204956.
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@article{osti_2204956,
title = {Harvesting 88Zr from heavy-ion beam irradiated tungsten at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory},
author = {Satija, Samridhi and Domnanich, Katharina A. and Bence, Jake A. and Vyas, Chirag K. and Abel, E. Paige and Kleinfeldt, Chloe and Essenmacher, Scott and Kalman, Morgan and Walker, Wesley and Despotopulos, John D. and Scielzo, Nicholas D. and Shusterman, Jennifer A. and Severin, Gregory W.},
abstractNote = {Tungsten is a commonly used material at many heavy-ion beam facilities, and it often becomes activated due to interactions with a beam. Many of the activation products are useful in basic and applied sciences if they can be recovered efficiently. In order to develop the radiochemistry for harvesting group (IV) elements from irradiated tungsten, a heavy-ion beam containing 88Zr was embedded into a stack of tungsten foils at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and a separation methodology was devised to recover the 88Zr. The foils were dissolved in 30% hydrogen peroxide, and the 88Zr was chemically purified from the tungsten matrix and from other co-implanted radionuclides (such as 85Sr and 88Y) using strong cation-exchange (AG MP-50) chromatographic resin in sulfuric acid media. The procedure provided 88Zr in approximately 60 mL 0.5 M sulfuric acid with no detectable radio-impurities. The overall recovery yield for 88Zr was (92.3 ± 1.2)%. In conclusion, this proof-of-concept experiment has facilitated the development of methodologies to harvest from tungsten and tungsten-alloy parts that are regularly irradiated at heavy-ion beam facilities.},
doi = {10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110831},
journal = {Applied Radiation and Isotopes},
number = ,
volume = 197,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 21 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Fri Apr 21 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}
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