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Framatome, KHNP to investigate producing Lu-177 in South Korea
Framatome and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to explore the possibility of producing the medical isotope Lutetium-177 at KHNP’s Wolsong nuclear power plant in South Korea. The companies also will investigate the feasibility of using the plant to support Korean production of medical radioisotopes in the future.
Jianbo Jin, Tomasz Rzesnicki, Stefan Kern, Manfred Thumm
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 4 | May 2011 | Pages 742-748
Technical Paper | Sixteenth Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC-16) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A11739
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A 2-MW, continuous wave, TE34,19 mode, 170-GHz coaxial cavity gyrotron for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is under development within the European GYrotron Consortium (EGYC). This paper presents the improved design of the quasi-optical mode converter for this gyrotron. The simulation results show that with the improved quasi-optical mode converter, the fundamental Gaussian mode content of the rf beam can be enhanced to 99.1% at the output window plane and the stray radiation in the quasi-optical mode converter could be decreased to 1.2%.
