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Oklo to collaborate with Atomic Alchemy on isotope production
Fast reactor developer Oklo, which recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange, announced on May 13 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Atomic Alchemy to cooperate on the production of radioisotopes for medical, energy, industry, and science applications.
W.J. McGann, G. Entine, R.F. Farrell, A. Clapp, M.R. Squillante
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 1041-1046
Measurement of Tritium | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25275
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Low noise silicon avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with ultra thin surface dead layers have been developed for detecting tritium beta particles. Unlike the present windowless proportional counters and liquid scintillation techniques this alternative requires no liquid or flowing gases and has the reliability and compactness of solid-state detector technology. We have carried out detector research to study and optimize the physical and electrical properties of APDs for nuclear spectroscopy. A particular emphasis has been placed on reducing the noise and surface dead layer of large area avalanche photodiodes (1 cm diameter) in order to maximize the quantum efficiency for detecting low energy betas, as well as to investigate the effects of changing temperature, bias, and leakage current on avalanche gain, signal-to-noise and tritium detection quantum efficiency.
