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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.”
Y. Miho, S. Fukada, T. Motomura, J. Mizutani, S. Hirano, M. Arimoto, T. Takeuchi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 3 | April 2017 | Pages 326-332
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1291235
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Water distillation packed with materials having adsorption ability is proposed for wastewater detritiation, and behavior of HTO depletion or enrichment is experimentally investigated. It is proved that the apparent volatility ratio of H2O-to-HTO is increased by an isotopic effect on adsorption under a steady-state operation. Danckwerts’ surface renewal model is applied to explain the T enrichment process in a lab-scale water distillation column. The effect is estimated in terms of an adsorption enhancement factor included in the T separation factor, εHT,ad, which depends on the kinds of adsorbents and liquid-vapor flow conditions. The value of the enhancement factor is also confirmed εHT,ad = 1.02 in a comparatively large-scale distillation operation packed with Sulzer packing or Raschig ring coated with zeolite adsorbent. A large-scale distillation tower can be designed to detritiate radioactive wastewater generated in Fukushima’s Daiichi NPS based on the present experimental results.
