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This communication deals with the conditions of 192Ir isotope production under a nonreactor technology via the 193Ir(γ, n)192Ir reaction. It can be carried out by irradiation of a target from natural iridium with the high-energy X-ray of an electron accelerator. The possibility of increasing the photonuclear yield of the target isotope by addition of the 191Ir(n, γ)192Ir reaction induced by moderated photoneutrons has been shown. For this, an X-ray converter and a target were placed inside a neutron moderator. Data on the 192Ir and admixture yields for the techniques using the moderator and without it have been obtained by computer simulation and experimentally.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Dovbnya, Yu.V. Rogov, V.A. Shevchenko, B.I. Shramenko, A.Eh. Tenishev, A.V. Torgovkin, V.L. Uvarov, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2014.
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Dovbnya, A.N., Rogov, Y.V., Shevchenko, V.A. et al. A study of 192Ir production conditions at an electron accelerator. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 11, 691–694 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477114050112
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