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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.
Y. S. Bae, M. Joung, J. H. Jeong, S. W. Yoon, J. H. Kim, S. H. Hahn, W. H. Ko, S. G. Lee, K. D. Lee, H. L. Yang, Y. K. Oh, J. G. Kwak, W. Namkung, M. H. Cho, H. Park, K. Kim, Y.-S. Na, R. Prater, Y. Gorelov, J. Lohr, R. Ellis, J. Hosea, K. Sakamoto, K. Kajiwara, Y. Oda, H. Tanaka, T. Maekawa, K. Hada, and Kstar Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 1 | January 2014 | Pages 88-102
Lecture | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-644
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Since the first plasma in Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), the electron cyclotron heating (ECH) system has been an essential tool for ECH-assisted start-up using second-harmonic 84-GHz and 110-GHz ECH and for experimental studies of other physics issues such as edge-localized mode control, rotation control, sawtooth control, tearing mode control, and core impurity control for long-pulse discharge and noninductive start-up. The loop voltage in KSTAR is limited by superconducting ohmic coils and a thick vacuum vessel. The ECH-assisted start-up was useful to overcome burn-through during the ramp-up phase with limited loop voltage by the electron cyclotron beam injection before or after the onset of the inductive loop voltage to reduce resistive power consumption. Later, the 170-GHz ECH system is installed as a main electron heating and local current drive for the control of magnetohydrodynamic modes such as sawteeth and neoclassical tearing modes. The 170-GHz gyrotron is an ITER preprototype gyrotron developed by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. Second-harmonic 170-GHz ECH-assisted start-up was also attempted with a raised toroidal magnetic field of 3 T in the 2011 KSTAR campaign, and flux saving in the ramp-up phase was observed. This lecture describes the physics issues and experimental results of the KSTAR ECH system. The present status and an upgrade plan of the KSTAR ECH system is also described.