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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.”
Masabumi Nishikawa, Mitsuru Uetake, Ken-ichi Tanaka, Tomofumi Shiraishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 717-722
Tritium Processing | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30489
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The tritium bred in a DT fusion reactor is taken out of its blanket using helium sweep gas. The cryosorption bed using molecular sieves or activated carbon at liquid nitrogen temperature is attractive for recovery of this tritium from the view point of adsorption capacity and pressure of tritium at release. The mass transfer coefficients required to predict the breakthrough curve are discussed in this paper. The surface difiusivity included in one of them is quantitated. Its value is dependent on the adsorption site. The rate controlling step changes with the equilibrium partial pressure of the hydrogen isotope, because the mass transfer coefficient representing the intraparticle diffusion decreases with increasing equilibrium pressure. The mass transfer coefficients in desorption are estimated to be the same as those in adsorption.