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First astatine-labeled compound shipped in the U.S.
The Department of Energy’s National Isotope Development Center (NIDC) on March 31 announced the successful long-distance shipment in the United States of a biologically active compound labeled with the medical radioisotope astatine-211 (At-211). Because previous shipments have included only the “bare” isotope, the NIDC has described the development as “unleashing medical innovation.”
Michel Martin, Géraldine Moll, François Lallet, Alexandre Choux, Rémy Collier, Olivier Legaie, Laurent Jeannot
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 166-170
Technical Paper | Nineteenth Target Fabrication Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST59-166
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Smooth and uniform solid deuterium-tritium (DT) layers inside a spherical shell are needed in order to achieve ignition on the Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) facility. The thermal environment around the capsule is the key to meeting the DT layer requirements. While keeping high mode roughness within the specifications at the shot temperature is now guaranteed by a rapid cooling technique, low mode roughness ("shape" of the layer) is still a complicated and demanding subject. A perfectly uniform temperature field around the capsule is needed. Final results of the constant thermal perturbation effects on the layer can be calculated, but the dynamic of reaction is not known. This paper presents a model that allows calculation of the low mode layer behavior depending on a change in the temperature field. This comes down to calculating a target lifetime for the low modes during a thermal transient state.