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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. A. Ivanov, A. V. Burdakov, P. A. Bagryansky
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 56-62
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-842
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Axisymmetric magnetic mirrors are capable of confining high-β plasma and, at the same time, enable provision of higher magnetic field in the confinement region compared to non-axisymmetric systems. These advantages and their technical simplicity make them rather attractive as high-flux volumetric neutron sources, fission-fusion hybrids, and in the longer term as pure fusion reactors. The specific issues that still have to be further studied are plasma MHD stability at plasma parameters relevant to fusion applications, too-high plasma end losses, and the relatively low electron temperatures obtained so far in the experiments. These main physics issues were successfully addressed in the recent experiments in the GDT and GOL-3 devices in Novosibirsk. The review concludes with an update of the experimental results from both experimental devices and a discussion about the limiting factors in the current experiments. Specifically, we report on an almost twofold increase of the electron temperature with application of ECR heating, which was obtained in the experiments on the GDT device, and control of plasma rotation profile by injection of an electron beam at the end of the device, which was demonstrated in the GOL-3 device.