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Estimating the activity of radioisotopes produced in intermittent irradiation of targets in nuclear reactors

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This paper presents a rapid and reasonably accurate mathematical solution to the estimation of radioisotopes produced by the intermittent neutron irradiation of targets in nuclear reactors including the points in time of attaining maximum activities for stopping the nuclear reaction for chemical processing. The formulae used in these estimations are presented.

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  1. K. Ahmad (IAEA Fellow)

    Present address: Institute of Isotopes Co., Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

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  1. Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, P.O. Box 80, Legon, Ghana

    K. Ahmad (IAEA Fellow)

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Ahmad, K. Estimating the activity of radioisotopes produced in intermittent irradiation of targets in nuclear reactors. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 218, 71–75 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02033976

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