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Published on: February 12, 2021
A strategy for intensive production of molybdenum-99 isotopes for nuclear medicine using CANDU reactors
A C Morreale1, D R Novog, J C Luxat
1Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street, West Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L7. morreaac@mcmaster.ca
Abstract:
Technetium-99m is an important medical isotope utilized worldwide in nuclear medicine and is produced from the decay of its parent isotope, molybdenum-99. The online fueling capability and compact fuel of the CANDU(®)(1) reactor allows for the potential production of large quantities of (99)Mo. This paper proposes (99)Mo production strategies using modified target fuel bundles loaded into CANDU fuel channels. Using a small group of channels a yield of 89-113% of the weekly world demand for (99)Mo can be obtained.
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