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Radioxenon emissions from fission-based radiopharmaceutical production are a major source of background concentrations affecting the radioxenon detection systems of the international monitoring system (IMS). Collection of real-time emissions data from production facilities makes it possible to screen out some medical isotope signatures from the IMS radioxenon data sets. This paper describes an effort to obtain and analyze real-time stack emissions data with the design, construction and installation of a small stack monitoring system developed by a joint CTBTO-IDC, BATAN, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory team at the BaTek medical isotope production facility near Jakarta, Indonesia.
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The authors wish to acknowledge the funding support of the U.S. Office of Multilateral and Nuclear Affairs in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Nuclear, at the Department of State and the U.S. Nuclear Arms Control Technology Program, at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The stack monitor equipment and data analysis to support the CTBTO in implementing the noble gas verification regime were funded by the European Union through Council Joint Action 2008/588/CFSP of 15 July 2008.
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McIntyre, J.I., Agusbudiman, A., Cameron, I.M. et al. Real-time stack monitoring at the BaTek medical isotope production facility. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 308, 311–316 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4348-2
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