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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.
Tetsuya Miyake, Kunihiko Takeda, Kazuo Imamura, Heiichiro Obanawa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | March 1984 | Pages 237-242
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33353
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Continuous bench-plant operation for ∼4 months has resulted in the first recovery of 3 %-enriched uranium by means of a chemical-exchange process. This confirms the reduced development time and uranium adsorption band stability predicted by mathematical models, which are derived by application of mass transfer concepts to redox chromatography and extension of addition reaction equilibrium equations to include multiphase systems. Furthermore, it confirms the achievement of a reduction in stage time by >103 through catalytic acceleration of the isotope-exchange rate and employment of an adsorbent with a high adsorption/desorption rate.
