HEU and LEU comparison in the production of Molybdenum-99

Conference · Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:21113539

Cestau, Daniel; Novello, Ariel; Cristini, Pablo; Bronca, Marcelo; Centurion, Roberto; Bavaro, Ricardo; Cestau, Julian; Carranza, Eduardo ^[1]

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1. Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Centro Atomico Ezeiza (Argentina)

Fission Molybdenum-99 from LEU targets is being produced in Argentina, at the Ezeiza Atomic Centre, since 2002. Before 2002, Argentina produced for more than 15 years fission molybdenum-99 from HEU targets. Both production procedures involve the irradiation of the targets composed by an Uranium-Aluminium compound 'meat' cladded with aluminum and a chemical processing of the targets. A statistic relative efficiency analysis of the production results, a brief description of the LEU method and quality control data of both procedures will be presented. (author)

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Nuclear Engineering Division, RERTR Department, Argonne, IL (United States); Czech Technical University, Prague (Czech Republic)
• OSTI ID: 21113539
• Report Number(s): INIS-US-08N0001; TRN: US08N0061121077
• Resource Relation: Conference: RERTR-2007: 29. international meeting on reduced enrichment for research and test reactors, Prague (Czech Republic), 23-27 Sep 2007; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); 8 refs, 2 figs, 4 tabs; Related Information: In: 2007 international meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR). Abstracts and available papers presented at the meeting, vp.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
ALUMINIUM
ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS
ARGENTINA
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
EFFICIENCY
FISSION
HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM
IRRADIATION
MODERATELY ENRICHED URANIUM
MOLYBDENUM 99
QUALITY CONTROL