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A thermal hydraulics analysis of a molybdenum production element for implementation in TRIGA reactors

Creator:

Byfield, Patrick

Abstract:

The metastable isotope of technetium-99 (Tc-99m) is an important diagnostic tool used in the field of nuclear medicine due to the isotope's 6.0 hour half-life, 140.5 keV γ-decay mechanism, and multiple oxidation states [1,2]. Approximately 70% of the world’s nuclear medicine procedures involve the use of Tc-99m [3]. The conventional...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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]. The conventional source of Tc-99m comes from the β-decay of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), an isotope which