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Canada clears Darlington to produce Lu-177 and Y-90
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has amended Ontario Power Generation’s power reactor operating license for Darlington nuclear power plant to authorize the production of the medical radioisotopes lutetium-177 and yttrium-90.
A. Iwamae, M. Atake, A. Sakaue, M. Yoshikawa, T. Kobayashi, K. Matama (19P11)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 244-246
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1363
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This paper reports the results of the polarization measurements of emission lines from the plasma. The emission lines from helium atoms are polarized in a plasma produced with 2.45 GHz electron cyclotron resonance microwave at the plug-barrier region during EC discharge cleaning. The polarization direction is parallel to the magnetic field. This polarization direction indicates that the electron velocity distribution function is prolate or of a cigar-like shape. The emissions from OII and CIII ions in an ICH plasma at the central region are observed with the polarization separation optics.
