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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.
Tomoyuki Senba, Satarou Yamaguchi, Shinsaku Imagawa, Nagato Yanagi, Takashi Satow, Jyunya Yamamoto, Osamu Motojima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 571-574
New Trends and Advanced Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11962966
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In helical experiment devices, the accuracy of their nonplanar coils affects plasma confinement properties significantly, so coil winding accuracy is one of the crucial issues for their construction. An advanced method for helical coil windings in fusion devices was studied. This new method utilizes a geometrical characteristic of the trajectory of the helical coil, which enables us to improve the accuracy of coils, and is thus expected to improve the mechanical, electromagnetic and superconducting properties of the coils. This paper presents the new concept of the winding method and practically shows the results of the R&D for the Large Helical Device (LHD).