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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.
J. A. Fleck, Jr.
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 5 | September 1957 | Pages 694-708
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25437
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The linearized hydrodynamic equations governing the expansion of a frictionless compressible coolant from a cylindrical untapered reactor core admit an exact solution. The pressure so obtained depends only on the time required for an acoustic signal to travel from the core boundary to the core center and is quite independent of the amount of fluid external to the reactor. The pressure should behave similarly in the case of moderate tapering of the core. In the case of extreme tapering it is necessary to consider the external fluid as incompressible. In this case it is possible to obtain an approximate solution for the pressure, which does depend on the amount of external fluid.