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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.”
Antonio F. Dias, Laurance D. Eisenhart, Ronald E. Engel, Lance J. Agee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 121 | Number 3 | March 1998 | Pages 346-358
Technical Paper | RETRAN | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2846
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The rod ejection accident in a pressurized water reactor and the control rod drop accident in a boiling water reactor are analyzed in this paper, both in a best-estimate (realistic) and a conservative manner. CORETRAN, a modern three-dimensional time-dependent nodal code, is used for all simulations. In all considered cases, the resulting peak fuel enthalpy is far less than the current licensing limit of 180 cal/g. The advantage of using a three-dimensional code over the classical point-kinetics approach can be summarized: The power peak is nominally a factor of 10 times lower, and the pulse is 10 times wider. Therefore, a three-dimensional approach predicts a much milder event. Sensitivity studies were performed to identify the influence of several parameters on the reactivity insertion simulations.