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Framatome, KHNP to investigate producing Lu-177 in South Korea
Framatome and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to explore the possibility of producing the medical isotope Lutetium-177 at KHNP’s Wolsong nuclear power plant in South Korea. The companies also will investigate the feasibility of using the plant to support Korean production of medical radioisotopes in the future.
B. Reneaume, G. Allegre, R. Botrel, H. Bourcier, R. Bourdenet, O. Breton, R. Collier, C. Dauteuil, F. Durut, A. Faivre, E. Fleury, I. Geoffray, G. Geoffray, L. Jeannot, L. Jehanno, O. Legaie, G. Legay, S. Meux, G. Paquignon, J. P. Perin, J. Schunk, M. Theobald, C. Vasselin, F. Viargues
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 148-154
Technical Paper | Nineteenth Target Fabrication Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11517
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The cryogenic target assemblies (CTAs) designed for Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) experiments have many functions and have to meet severe specifications imposed by implosion physics, the CTA thermal environment, and the CTA interfaces with the Mégajoule laser cryogenic target positioner. Therefore, CTA fabrication uses many challenging materials and requires several technological studies. During the last 2 years, many developments have enabled better collection of comprehensive data on target constitutive materials and improvements in the fabrication of the CTA base, hohlraum, and aluminum turret.Studies have been carried out (a) to better characterize thermal properties of materials allowing optimization of the thermal simulation of the hohlraum, (b) to improve the CTA base fabrication process in order to optimize thermal studies of the LMJ experimental filling station (EFS), and (c) to determine coatings on the polyimide membrane that may limit the 300 K thermal effect on the microshell and increase the deuterium-tritium fuel lifetime.CTAs have been produced to evaluate fabrication knowledge, to characterize CTAs, to study air tightness, and to study filling and D2 ice layering on the EFS.An overview of the results that have been obtained during the past 2 years is presented in this paper.