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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.
A. B. Kukushkin, V. S. Neverov, A. G. Alekseev, S. W. Lisgo, A. S. Kukushkin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 69 | Number 3 | May 2016 | Pages 628-642
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-186
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The use of an all-metal first wall in future magnetic fusion reactors equipped with a divertor may impose severe limitations on the capabilities of optical diagnostics in the main chamber because of the divertor stray light (DSL) produced by reflections of the intense light emitted in the divertor. Here, we introduce a synthetic H-alpha diagnostics to estimate the errors of solutions of the inverse problems aimed at recovering the neutral hydrogen parameters (density and isotope ratio) in the scrape-off layer (SOL) with allowance for (a) strong DSL on the observation chords in the main chamber, (b) substantial deviation of the neutral atom velocity distribution function from a Maxwellian in the SOL, and (c) the data from the direct observation of the divertor. The results of recovering the relative contributions of all three sources to the signal along an observation chord in the main chamber (namely, from the high-field-side and low-field-side SOL sections of the observation chord, and the DSL), together with the isotope ratios in the SOL, are presented for the flattop stage of Q = 10 inductive operation of ITER.
