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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.”
Kosei Hara, Francis C. Moon
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1548-1553
Magnet Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24953
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Superconducting magnets have complex structures. The coil pack is made up of alternate layers of superconductor and insulator, which form an extremely unisotropic composite structure. For example, the MFTF magnet design, the transverse stiffness is quite soft as compared to the circumferential stiffness [1]. In this study, cylindrically wound superconducting magnets were modeled by two-dimensional multi-rings connected by soft springs, and the internal vibration and buckling of the system were studied both experimentally and analytically. Since the linear elastic theory used in the previous studies [2,3] has failed to predict buckling and vibration of internal turns in the bending mode, elastic ring theory was used in this study. A model based on ring theory and magnetic stiffness was developed to explain experimental observations and showed a fair to good agreement between experimental and theoretical values of the buckling current.