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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.
Tiejun Zu, Qian Zhang, Hongchun Wu, Liangzhi Cao, Qingming He, Won Sik Yang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 184 | Number 4 | December 2016 | Pages 495-513
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE16-65
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The theory of resonance interference factor (RIF) method is examined for thermal reactor problems, and the approximations and limitations are identified. To evaluate the interference effect between resonance isotopes, the RIF method establishes an approximate equivalent relationship between a heterogeneous system and a homogeneous system by introducing background cross sections, and the approximation is a source of deviation in self-shielding calculations. Furthermore, each resonance isotope is treated individually in the self-shielding procedure, which requires unnecessary calculation effort, especially for whole-core and burnup cases. Based on the analysis, a heterogeneous pseudo-resonant isotope method (HPRIM) is proposed to overcome these problems. The mixture of resonant nuclides is considered as a pseudo-resonant isotope, and the resonance integral is generated in a one-dimensional heterogeneous system. The numerical results show that HPRIM improves the accuracy of evaluating the resonance interference effect and improves the efficiency of the self-shielding procedure.