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Canada clears Darlington to produce Lu-177 and Y-90
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has amended Ontario Power Generation’s power reactor operating license for Darlington nuclear power plant to authorize the production of the medical radioisotopes lutetium-177 and yttrium-90.
Seung Min Lee, Travis W. Knight, Stewart L. Voit, Rozaliya I. Barabash
Nuclear Technology | Volume 193 | Number 2 | February 2016 | Pages 287-296
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-136
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The solid solution of (U1−yFPy)O2±x has the same fluorite structure as UO2±x, and the lattice parameter is affected by dissolved fission product and oxygen concentrations. The relation between the lattice parameter and the concentrations of neodymium and oxygen in the fluorite structure of (U1−yNdy)O2±x was investigated using X-ray diffraction. The lattice parameter behavior in the (U1−yNdy)O2±x solid solution shows a linear change as a function of the oxygen-to-metal ratio and solubility of neodymium. The lattice parameter depends on the radii of ions forming the fluorite structure and also can be expressed by a particular rule (modified Vegard’s law). The numerical analyses of the lattice parameters for the stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric solid solutions were conducted, and the lattice parameter model for the (U1−yNdy)O2±x solid solution was assessed. A very linear relationship between the lattice parameter and the Nd and O concentration for the stoichiometry and nonstoichiometry of the (U1−yNdy)O2±x solid solution was verified.