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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.
Francesco Celani, Antonio Spallone, Sandro Pace, Basilio Polichetti, Aniello Saggese, Lorella Liberatori, Vittorio di Stefano, Paolo Marini
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 17 | Number 4 | July 1990 | Pages 718-724
Technical Notes on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29208
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Several experiments were performed at the Gran Sasso Laboratory on an 0.8-cm-diam × 5-cm-long, hyperpure, high-temperature vacuum-annealed palladium rod used as a cathode for electrolytic infusion of D2O and 0.1 M LiOH with regular additions of gaseous CO2 at a current density of 60 mA/cm2. In the very low background radiation environment, several gamma bursts lasting up to 15 min were detected whose intensity, in terms of cold fusion, was > 10−20 fusion/(deuteron pair · s). Under normal background conditions, none of these burst signals would have been detected with statistical significance. The shape and intensity of these signals are quite similar to those detected previously.