Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2004 International RERTR Meeting
Development of the Fabrication Technology of Wide
Uranium Foils for Mo-99 Irradiation Target by
Cooling-roll Casting Method
Ki-Hwan Kim, Myung-Koon Son, Seok-Jin Oh, Don-Bae
Lee, Byung-Chul Lee,
Chang-Kyu Kim and Dong-Seong Sohn
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
150 Deogjin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-353, Korea
ABSTRACT
An alternative fabrication method for polycrystalline
uranium foils has been investigated using a cooling-roll
casting method at KAERI since 2001, in order to produce
a medical isotope 99Mo, the parent nuclide of
99mTc. The fabrication method of wide uranium foils
produced by a cooling-roll casting was recently
developed to improve the quality of the uranium foils
and the economic efficiency of the foil fabrication with
modifications of the casting apparatus and adjustments
of the process parameters. A continuous polycrystalline
LEU foil with a thickness range of 100 to 150. and a
width of about 50 mm, exceeding 5m in length for a batch
procedure, could be fabricated with a better quality of
the uranium foil and a higher yield of the foil
fabrication, through improvements of the casting
apparatus and variations of the process parameters.
Contact: Dr. Jordi Roglans-Ribas
Technical Director, RERTR Department
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