Separation of Curium from Neutron Irradiated Am-241

Tagging fast neutrons from an (241)Am/(9)Be source.

Shielding, coincidence, and time-of-flight measurement techniques are employed to tag fast neutrons emitted from an (241)Am/(9)Be source resulting in a continuous polychromatic energy-tagged beam of neutrons with energies up to 7MeV. The measured energy structure of the beam agrees qualitatively with both previous measurements and theoretical calculations.

Designing an Am-Be miniature neutron source

Background: Miniature neutron sources with high neutron flux have abundant applications in medicine, industry and researches. The most important general characteristic of miniature neutron sources is their diameter which is 3mm in average. In this research, we have surveyed and designed an Am-Be miniature neutron source fabrication. Materials and Methods: This investigation resulted in creation...

Electrochemical Separation of Curium and Americium

The objective of this project is to develop a method for the separation of Am from Cm based on electrochemical techniques. Electrochemical systems that allow the thermodynamics of actinide and lanthanide complexes to be systematically evaluated and tuned will be examined. The influence of complex formation on the ability to selectively isolate a given species electrochemically will be evaluated...

Separation of Uranyl Nitrate Hexahydrate Crystal from Dissolver Solution of Irradiated Fast Neutron Reactor Fuel

A study on separation of 99Mo from neutron-irradiated UO2 by precipitation as ammonium molybdophosphate.

pharmaceuticals has increased so rapidly in the past few yearsl) that the production and the supply of 99Mo are one of the most important missions of an organization for radioisotope production. Molybdenum-99 having enough high specific activity for the medical application can be produced by nuclear fission of 235U. For the separation of 99Mo from fission products have been reported various met...