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Diffusion-Thermal Methods for Recovering Radionuclides from Solid Reactor and Cyclotron Targets: An Outlook

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Various methods for recovering radionuclides from solid reactor, cyclotron targets wereanalyzed, namely: (a) cocrystallization and adsorption, (b) extraction and chromatography, (c) interphaseexchange in amalgam-solution systems, and (d) high-temperature gas thermal chromatography (sublimation, treatment of irradiated targets in oxygen or hydrogen flow). Major attention was given to diffusion-thermal methods. General dependences of physicochemical behavior of impurity transmutation radionuclides in irradiated metals with various histories were analyzed, and procedures allowing commercial application of these methods received primary attention. The features of the diffusion-thermal and common procedures for recovering radionuclides from solid targets were compared.

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Alekseev, I.E. Diffusion-Thermal Methods for Recovering Radionuclides from Solid Reactor and Cyclotron Targets: An Outlook. Radiochemistry 45, 429–456 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026246923787

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