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Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
G. J. Ehrhardt, S. Symes, R. K. Guimon, K. R. Zinn
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 4 | April 1992 | Pages 369-373
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23910
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Several radioisotope generator systems exist in which the carrier-free daughter product would precipitate if present in macro amounts at pH levels at which the parent is soluble. Included among these are the 68Ge/68Ga, 90Sr/90Y, and 47Ca/47Sc pairs. In these systems, chemical separation can be achieved by Fajans adsorption of the radiocolloidal daughter products onto surfaces such as activated glass microspheres at an appropriate pH, followed by washing to remove the parent solution and desorption of the daughter crop by acid washes. Investigation of the Ge/Ga and Sr/Y systems demonstrated that this solid-phase extraction method is erratic, but can give daughter yields as high as 89% with separation factors up to ∼10000 from parent isotope. This method has the potential for producing daughter isotopes with a minimum of metal and organic impurities for labeling cells, receptor binding ligands, and antibodies for diagnostic and radiotherapeutic purposes.