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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.”
Allen Y.K. Chen, A. A. Haasz, J. W. Davis
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 711-715
Decontamination and Waste | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22679
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We present an overview of a semi-empirical kinetic model of chemical reaction product formation due to simultaneous irradiation of carbon by O+ and H+ symbolically represented by O+-H+→C. The model was developed in conjunction with our experimental studies of the O+-H+→C and the O+-H+→C/B irradiation cases; C/B represents boron-doped graphite. Model predictions were made for flux and energy dependence, and generally good agreement with experimental results has been seen for both single-species cases: H+→C and O+→C. For the O+-H+→C reaction, the model agrees quite well with the flux ratio-dependence of the H2O yield, the resulting CO and CO2 yield reductions, and the CH4 yield reduction.