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Design study and heat transfer analysis of a neutron converter target for medical radioisotope production

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A worldwide challenge in the near future will be to find a way of producing radioisotopes in sufficient quantity without relying on research reactors. The motivation for this innovative work on targets lies in the accelerator-based production of radioisotopes using a neutron converter target as in the transmutation by adiabatic resonance crossing concept. Thermal analysis of a multi-channel helium cooled device is performed with the computational fluid dynamics code CFX. Different boundary conditions are taken into account in the simulation process and many important parameters such as maximum allowable solid target temperature as well as uniform inlet velocity and outlet pressure changes in the channels are investigated. The results confirm that the cooling configuration works well; hence such a solid target could be operated safely and may be considered for a prototype target.

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This research was supported by WCU (World Class University) program through the National Research Foundation of Korea, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (R31-2008-10029).

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  1. Department of Energy Science, SungKyunKwan University, Suwon, 440-746, Republic of Korea

    Masoud Behzad, Sang-In Bak, Yacine Kadi, Claudio Tenreiro, Seung-Woo Hong & Jong-Seo Chai

  2. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    Karel Samec & Yacine Kadi

  3. Faculty of Engineering, University of Talca, Talca, Chile

    Claudio Tenreiro

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Behzad, M., Samec, K., Bak, SI. et al. Design study and heat transfer analysis of a neutron converter target for medical radioisotope production. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 299, 1001–1006 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-013-2637-1

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