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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.
H. Tanaka, M. Sakamoto, K. Furutachi, K. Oki, M. Mizuguchi, Y. Nagatsuka, M. Yoshikawa, R. Nohara, M. Yoshikawa, J. Kohagura, N. Ohno, Y. Tsuji
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 125-129
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-874
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Propagation behavior of 3–4 kHz electron density fluctuation in the core and edge regions was investigated in the GAMMA 10 tandem mirror device. Frequency analysis was employed for high spatiotemporal-resolution fluctuations measured by gold neutral beam probe (GNBP) in the central cell and Langmuir probes in the end region. We found same-frequency periodic fluctuations in both signals and applied the correlation analysis technique. By considering the geometry of the measurement system, propagation speeds of the periodic fluctuation along and across the magnetic field lines were estimated.