Medical Isotope Production in the Fast Flux Test Facility and the High FluxIsotope Reactor and Isotope Production Software Users Guides

摘要

This report was prepared as input for the report 'Isotope Production at theHanford Site in Richland, Washington' (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 1999) to provide a perspective on the relative medical isotope production capabilities of the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF)at the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington and the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Isotope production at various reactor facilities depends on many factors such as neutron flux spectra, target isotope energy-dependent cross sections, and target volumes. This report uses representative data for both reactors to generate medical isotope production data that can be used to compare the capabilities of the two reactors. Production capability for FFTF is evaluated for representative locations throughout the reactor core, whereas the calculations for HFIR are eimited to selected core locations where the neutron flux is highest.