Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium

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. "2 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Production and Use." Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009.

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Medical Isotope Production without Highly Enriched Uranium

TABLE 2.2 Uranium-Bearing Targets for Mo-99 Production

Target Geometry	Target Material	Target Users^a
Plate	Uranium aluminide/aluminum-alloy dispersion	Mallinckrodt, Institut National des Radioéléments, Nuclear Technology Products, CNEA, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO, OPAL reactor)
Pin	Uranium aluminum alloy in aluminum-cladding	MDS-Nordion (National Research Universal reactor)
Cylinder	UO2 deposited on the inside surface of a stainless-steel closed cylinder Foil target Compacted UO2 powder	Indonesian National Atomic Energy Agency (BATAN; current) BATAN (planned) MDS Nordion (Maple reactors)^b
^aSee Chapter 3 for a discussion of these producers. ^bIn May 2008, AECL announced that it was discontinuing development work on the Maple reactors. SOURCE: Data from George Vandegrift, Argonne National Laboratory.

FIGURE 2.5 Fission yield for thermal neutron fission of U-235. SOURCE: Data from Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion File, Incident-neutron data, http://www-nds.iaea.org/exfor/endf00.htm, October 2, 2006; see http://www-nds.iaea.org/sgnucdat/c1.htm.