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Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine
Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million diagnostic procedures every year—from cardiovascular imaging and bone scans to cancer detection—making it the undisputed workhorse of nuclear medicine. That single statistic tells you something important: An enormous portion of modern diagnostic medicine rests on a surprisingly narrow foundation, one built around a small number of aging research reactors that were never originally designed for continuous isotope production.
Shuichi Ishikura, Yang Xu, Kenichiro Satoh
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 178 | Number 1 | September 2014 | Pages 76-85
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE13-50
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The primary hot-leg piping system of the advanced sodium-cooled fast reactor under conceptual study in Japan (named Japan sodium-cooled fast reactor: JSFR) utilizes large-diameter and thin-walled pipes to ensure high coolant velocity, which inevitably leads to the occurrence of flow-induced vibration. Usually, the structural integrity of a piping system under flow-induced vibration is defined to be the maximum stress amplitude below the design fatigue limit. The present study tries to establish a reasonable methodology to estimate the high-cycle fatigue damage due to flow-induced vibration depending on its frequencies and the corresponding stress levels. An analytical procedure for probabilistic fatigue evaluation is developed and applied to the hot-leg piping system. The reasonability of the newly proposed methodology is confirmed from a test simulation.