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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.
F. Chaland, G. Samba
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 182 | Number 4 | April 2016 | Pages 417-434
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-38
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To calculate instability flows where radiative transport plays a role, it is mandatory to have one-dimensional (1-D) spherical symmetry. To obtain this 1-D symmetry, a new approach for solving the transport equation in the context of the discrete ordinates method is proposed in two-dimensional cylindrical geometry. Based on a new formulation of the spatial transport term, this method allows us to derive a scheme preserving the 1-D symmetry on an equal-angle zoning mesh. We prove this property at both discrete angle and spatial levels. Numerical results show that the scheme based on our method preserves constant solutions and the 1-D symmetry, and it is consistent of order 1.