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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.”
S. Inoue, Y. Taji, Y. Nakahara, T. Suzuki
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 73 | Number 2 | February 1980 | Pages 119-124
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A18692
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Transport of neutral particles in a toroidal plasma is treated in the same manner as that of neutrons by the Monte Carlo method. A new sampling technique of flight-path length is proposed for the torus geometry. Several routines relating to the toroidal geometry have been developed and incorporated into the neutron and gamma-ray transport Monte Carlo code “MORSE.” Results obtained from sample calculations to check the cylindrical approximation show that hot neutrals escape more easily from the torus than from the cylinder, while cold neutrals are retained better in the cylinder. Furthermore, the spectrum of the leakage neutrals is compared with the neutral and ion spectra inside the torus.