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Work on the production of enriched germanium performed at Élektrokhimicheskii Zavod is described. This germanium is to be used for experiments searching for neutrinoless double β-decay using 76Ge. One of the main requirements for the enriched product is that its activation (formation of long-lived 68Ge and 60Co) by the nuclear-active component of cosmic rays must be decreased. A system of measures which greatly decrease the production of these isotopes to a level which satisfies the requirements of the GERDA experiment has been developed and adopted.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 135–140, August, 2006.
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Shubin, A.N., Gilev, A.N., Kononov, D.B. et al. New requirements on enriched isotopes for experiments studying neutrinoless double β-decay (GERDA experiment). At Energy 101, 588–592 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-006-0135-z
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