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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. Van Criekingen, E. E. Lewis, R. Beauwens
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 152 | Number 2 | February 2006 | Pages 149-163
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE06-1
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A mixed-hybrid treatment of the spatial variables of the within-group neutron transport equation generalizes existing mixed and hybrid methods, combining their attractive features: the simultaneous approximation of even- and odd-parity angular flux components and the use of Lagrange multipliers to enforce interface continuity. A finite element spatial discretization and spherical harmonic angular expansions are used. We discuss rank conditions for the proposed methods and provide a new derivation of the Rumyantsev interface conditions. Even- and odd-parity interface continuity properties corresponding to these Rumyantsev conditions are established. We examine inclusion conditions and the interaction of the primal/dual distinction due to the spatial variable with the even/odd-order spherical harmonic approximation distinction due to the angular variable. Numerical solutions for both even- and odd-order spherical harmonic approximations are presented, and a promising enclosing property is observed in our results.