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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.
F. Bredice, I. Deha†, F. Giammanco, A. Salvetti, D. P. Singh, M. Vaselli, E. Panarella, S. del Tredici
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | May 1995 | Pages 215-220
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30383
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In a study that is preliminary to a spherical pinch experiment, attention is focused on divergent and convergent shock waves. An intense laser beam is used to initiate a gas breakdown to generate a divergent shock wave at the center of a spherical cell; the temporal evolution of the shock front is tracked by holographic interferometry. A convergent shock wave is produced from the laser-induced evaporation of a metallic layer present on the internal surface of a hemi-spherical cell; a framing camera is employed to obtain streak pictures. Theoretical models are used to interpret the experimental results.