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Radium sources yield cancer-fighting Ac-225 in IAEA program
The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that, to date, 14 countries have made 14 transfers of disused radium to be recycled for use in advanced cancer treatments under the agency’s Global Radium-226 Management Initiative. Through this initiative, which was launched in 2021, legacy radium-226 from decades-old medical and industrial sources is used to produce actinium-225 radiopharmaceuticals, which have shown effectiveness in the treatment of patients with breast and prostate cancer and certain other cancers.
Jun Qu, Peng Fu, Yanan Wu, Jing Lu, Mingxing Zhu, Yan Liang, Yunxiang Tian
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 4 | May 2021 | Pages 316-326
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1880248
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Power quality is analyzed for the poloidal field (PF) power supply system of the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) device. It is found that the power quality is quite different when the four-quarter PF power system is working in different operation modes. The (6k±1)’th (k is the odd number) harmonics are dominant during the electricity-cost phase while the (6k±1)’th (k is the even number) harmonics exist abundantly during the electricity-generation stage. In addition, fast Fourier transform as the data analysis method is applied to process harmonics and interharmonics. The experimental results present the characteristics of waveform and of current and power, and they show the emission features of harmonics and interharmonics, which leads to the conclusion that the energy of interharmonics and spectrum leakage caused by the harmonic clustering algorithm is recovered to an integer or that the picket fence effect results in the spectrum leakage of interharmonics.