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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.
M. J. Loughlin, E. I. Polunovskiy, S. Zheng
Nuclear Technology | Volume 175 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 271-275
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the 16th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division / Radiation Transport and Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A12299
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The nuclear fusion devices using the principle of magnetic plasma confinement such as the ITER tokamak are going to consist of a variety of highly heterogeneous, nuclear-radiation-sensitive components. The compactness of the ITER tokamak makes it difficult to rely on large safety margins. Under these circumstances the use of reasonably heterogeneous, highly precise models for the nuclear analysis is going to be unavoidable. Techniques have been developed to create these models based as directly as possible on computer-aided design (CAD) specifications, thereby retaining fidelity and speeding up the process. Inevitably, some adaption of the CAD model is necessary as part of the conversion process.This paper describes the approach to the production of the models for nuclear analysis for ITER developed by the neutronics group in the ITER Organization. Algorithmization of the CAD-based modeling for MCNP code has been undertaken.