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Strontium: Supply-and-demand success for the DOE’s Isotope Program
The Department of Energy’s Isotope Program (DOE IP) announced last week that it would end its “active standby” capability for strontium-82 production about two decades after beginning production of the isotope for cardiac diagnostic imaging. The DOE IP is celebrating commercialization of the Sr-82 supply chain as “a success story for both industry and the DOE IP.” Now that the Sr-82 market is commercially viable, the DOE IP and its National Isotope Development Center can “reassign those dedicated radioisotope production capacities to other mission needs”—including Sr-89.
A. Madrid, G. Apostolakis, R. W. Conn
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1135-1140
Environment and Safety | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23011
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A set of initiating events are identified and the associated accident sequences are developed for impurity control systems in tokamak fusion reactors. The master logic diagram concept used in risk analysis is developed for a tokamak. The notion of the fusion island is used as the central power producing element in fusion power plants. Differences in the severity of initiating events and/or accident sequences that are associated with the two leading candidate impurity control concepts, the pump limiter and the poloidal divertor, are identified. They reflect both safety-related and/or financial consequences.