Open Access
Issue
ND 2007
2007
Article Number 360
Number of page(s) 4
Section Medical and environmental applications
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/ndata:07351
Published online 17 June 2008
International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology 2007
DOI: 10.1051/ndata:07351

New nuclear data for production of 73As, 88Y and 153Sm: important radionuclides for environmental and medical applications

I. Spahn1, G.F. Steyn2, S.A. Kandil1, 3, H.H. Coenen1 and S.M. Qaim1

1  Institut für Nuklearchemie, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
2  Radionuclide Production, iThemba LABS, Somerset West 7129, South Africa
3  Cyclotron Facility, Nuclear Research Centre, Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo 13759, Egypt

i.spahn@fz-juelich.de

Published online: 21 May 2008

Abstract
The radionuclides 73As, 88Y and 153Sm are of considerable significance in environmental and biological research as well as in internal radiotherapy. Cross section measurements related to the n.c.a. production of these radionuclides were carried out for the nuclear reactions natGe(p,xn)73As, natRb(α,xn)88Y and 150Nd(α,n)153Sm, using protons and alpha particles of energies up to 100 MeV and 26.5 MeV, respectively. The excitation function of the 150Nd(α,n)153Sm reaction has been measured for the first time. The existing nuclear database for the other two nuclides could be expanded and strengthened. In the case of 153Sm additionally the 153Eu(n,p)153Sm reaction cross section was measured averaged over a 14 MeV d(Be) neutron spectrum. The calculation of thick target yields was done and the production possibilities of the three radionuclides were evaluated.



© CEA 2008