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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.
H. Hojo, A. Mase (19P33)
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 304-306
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems for Plasma Confinement | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1383
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We present a new method for measuring the electron density of a thin plasma layer. The method uses evanescent electromagnetic waves in plasma. We study the transmittance of transverse-magnetic electromagnetic waves incident obliquely to a thin plasma layer, and show that we can determine the electron density of the plasma layer from the measurement of the angle of wave incidence corresponding to the maximum transmittance.
