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MURR becomes only gadolinium-153 producer in the U.S.
The University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) has commenced production of gadolinium-153, a radioisotope used in medical imaging applications, as announced by the Department of Energy’s Office of Isotope R&D Production (IRP) and the university earlier this week. That makes MURR the only domestic supplier of Gd-153 and one of two suppliers in the world.
Dennis G. Vasilik, Richard L. Murri, George P. Fisher
Nuclear Technology | Volume 14 | Number 3 | June 1972 | Pages 279-283
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31117
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Neutron radiography studies have been conducted using an accelerator source of 14.3 ± 0.3 MeV neutrons and a water moderator. The yield of the accelerator was 6.18 × 101 n/sec. The peak thermal-neutron flux of the system was measured to be 6.87 × 107 n/(cm2 sec) at 5.1 cm from the source. A cadmium ratio of 3.4 was measured at this position. A theoretical two-group analysis of the thermal-neutron flux distribution was also performed. The experimental data verified the theoretical results. Neutron multiplication experiments were also conducted by bombarding a 238U target surrounded by the water moderator. It was experimentally determined that 2.5 cm of 238U yielded a maximum multiplication factor of 2.5.