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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.”
Zachary K. Hardy, Jim E. Morel, Cory Ahrens
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 193 | Number 11 | November 2019 | Pages 1173-1185
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1609317
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this paper we explore the use of dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) for modeling the kinetics of subcritical metal systems pulsed with fast neutrons. Our ultimate purpose is to obtain a fast and accurate reduced-order model for such systems that can be used to develop an emulator. An alternative to DMD is α-eigenfunction expansions, but we show that DMD is vastly superior in several ways for the systems of interest to us.
