TY - JOUR
T1 - Estimation of 99Mo production rates from natural molybdenum in research reactors
AU - Blaauw, M.
AU - Ridikas, D.
AU - Baytelesov, S.
AU - Salas, P. S Bedregal
AU - Chakrova, Y.
AU - Eun-Ha, Cho
AU - Dahalan, R.
AU - Fortunato, A. H.
AU - Jacimovic, R.
AU - Kling, A.
AU - Muñoz, L.
AU - Mohamed, N. M A
AU - Párkányi, D.
AU - Singh, T.
AU - Van Dong Duong, Dong Duong
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Molybdenum-99 is one of the most important radionuclides for medical diagnostics. In 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency organized a round-robin exercise where the participants measured and calculated specific saturation activities achievable for the 98Mo(n,γ)99Mo reaction. This reaction is of interest as a means to locally, and on a small scale, produce 99Mo from natural molybdenum. The current paper summarises a set of experimental results and reviews the methodology for calculating the corresponding saturation activities. Activation by epithermal neutrons and also epithermal neutron self-shielding are found to be of high importance in this case.
AB - Molybdenum-99 is one of the most important radionuclides for medical diagnostics. In 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency organized a round-robin exercise where the participants measured and calculated specific saturation activities achievable for the 98Mo(n,γ)99Mo reaction. This reaction is of interest as a means to locally, and on a small scale, produce 99Mo from natural molybdenum. The current paper summarises a set of experimental results and reviews the methodology for calculating the corresponding saturation activities. Activation by epithermal neutrons and also epithermal neutron self-shielding are found to be of high importance in this case.
KW - Epithermal neutron self-shielding
KW - Mo-99
KW - Research reactor utilization
KW - Tc-99 m production
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U2 - 10.1007/s10967-016-5036-6
DO - 10.1007/s10967-016-5036-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84991309838
SN - 0236-5731
VL - 311
SP - 409
EP - 418
JO - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
JF - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
IS - 1
ER -