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Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine
Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million diagnostic procedures every year—from cardiovascular imaging and bone scans to cancer detection—making it the undisputed workhorse of nuclear medicine. That single statistic tells you something important: An enormous portion of modern diagnostic medicine rests on a surprisingly narrow foundation, one built around a small number of aging research reactors that were never originally designed for continuous isotope production.
Tomejiro Yamagishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | April 1995 | Pages 505-508
Confinement and Transport Studies | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A11962951
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Stochasticity of magnetic field lines near the separatrix in the Toroidal Divertor Tokakamak is investigated by the island overlappng model and the separatrix mapping method. Both results indicate that the undisturbed confinement core region can exists, and the width of stochastic region is found to be controllable by the x-point position and ploidal magnetic field. The width of stochastic layer obtained by the more relaible separatrix mapping method was larger than that determined by the island overlapping model.