Production of millicurie quantities of 85mKr in an aluminum vessel in a 1-megawatt nuclear reactor

✍ Scribed by J.A. Novotny; D.R. Lacaze; M.L. Moore; M. Forsbacka

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 450 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0969-8043
• DOI: 10.1016/0969-8043(94)90167-8

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes a method for producing millicurie quantities of 4.48-h ssmKr by neutron irradiation of natural krypton in the core of a nuclear reactor. The target gas was contained in a half-liter aluminum vessel residing in the reactor core. Irradiation at I megawatt for I h at a pressure of 40 psig (206 cm Hg) yielded a total 70 mCi of RrmKr in a volume of 1660 cm'.