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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.”
A. Badawi, A.R. Raffray, A. Ying, M.A. Abdou
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 1532-1537
ITER | Proceedings of the Ninth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Oak Brook, Illinois, October 7-11, 1990) | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29559
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This paper presents an analysis of the tritium release and inventory in the US-ITER solid breeder blanket, based on the MISTRAL code. Since the effect of LiOT formation and precipitation at low temperature can be quite important in Li2O, the selected solid breeder for the blanket, these processes have to be accounted for in the calculations. A simple way of estimating the LiOT precipitation as a function of temperature and moisture partial pressure was added to MISTRAL by including the calculations of T2O, H2O and HTO concentrations in the pore, in addition to T2, H2 and HT. The analysis was carried out for both steady state and transient cases. The transient cases are based on the given burn and dwell times during the Physics and Technology Phases and the corresponding temperature profile and tritium generation history in the solid breeder region. For the steady state case, a tradeoff analysis is done for the helium purge flow rate, based on an acceptable tritium inventory which imposes a lower limit on the purge flow rate and an acceptable purge pressure drop which imposes a higher limit on the purge flow rate.