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RFNC-VNIIEF capabilities to production high pure isotopes for scientific and medical applications

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This technical paper presents information on the basic equipment and more than thirty-year experience of RFNC-VNIIEF activities in the sphere of producing highly enriched isotopes of actinide elements - thorium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium and curium - for scientific research and practical applications. Electromagnetic separator and radiochemical methods are used to produce super pure isotope samples for nuclear-physical radiometric and mass-spectrometric equipment, and also as tracers when analyzing environmental contamination. There are stated science and engineering elaborations of technologies aimed at producing alpha-ray radiating radionuclides - thorium-229, thorium-228, actinium-225, radium-224 - for the purpose of anti-cancer therapy using bismuth-212 and bismuth-213 produced by specially developed generators.

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  1. Russian Federal Nuclear Center - VNIIEF, Sarov, Mira av 37, Sarov, Nizhni, Novgorod Region, Russia, 607190

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Vesnovskii, S.P. RFNC-VNIIEF capabilities to production high pure isotopes for scientific and medical applications. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 257, 27–31 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024776722337

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