Stable isotope enrichment capabilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Brian J. Egle; Kevin J. Hart; W. Scott Aaron

doi:10.1007/s10967-013-2630-8

Stable isotope enrichment capabilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Brian J. Egle, Kevin J. Hart, W. Scott Aaron

Stable Isotope Materials and Chemistry

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Abstract

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the US Department of Energy - Nuclear Physics Program have built a high-resolution electromagnetic isotope separator (EMIS) as a prototype for reestablishing a US-based enrichment capability for stable isotopes. ORNL has over 60 years of experience providing enriched stable isotopes and related technical services to the international accelerator target community, as well as medical, research, industrial, national security, and other communities. ORNL is investigating the combined use of electromagnetic and gas centrifuge isotope separation technologies to provide research quantities (milligram to several kilogram) of enriched stable isotopes. In preparation for implementing a larger scale production facility, a 10 mA high-resolution EMIS prototype has been built and tested. Initial testing of the device has simultaneously collected greater than 98 % enriched samples of all the molybdenum isotopes from natural abundance feedstock.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	995-999
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume	299
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-013-2630-8
State	Published - Feb 2014

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Acknowledgments This EMIS/GCIS work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy—Office of Nuclear Physics—Isotopes Program with funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The materials and chemistry technical services are supported by the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics. This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of the manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.

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U.S. Department of Energy	DE-AC05-00OR22725

Keywords

Calutron
Electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS)
Isotope enrichment
Isotopes

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