Abstract: A method of separating actinium and/or radium from proton-irradiated thorium metal. The thorium metal is irradiated to produce isotopes including thorium, actinium and/or radium. The resultant product is dissolved in solution and a selective precipitant is used to precipitate a bulk portion of the thorium. The precipitated thorium can be recovered. Chromatography is carried out on the remaining solution to remove residual thorium and to separate the actinium from the radium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 26, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 24, 2023
Assignees:
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, TRIUMF INC.
Inventors:
Andrew Kyle Henderson Robertson, Hua Yang, Stefan Zeisler, Paul Schaffer
Abstract: A system for producing technetium-99m from molybdate-100. The system comprises: a target capsule apparatus for housing a Mo-100-coated target plate; a target capsule pickup apparatus for engaging, and delivering the target cell apparatus into a target station apparatus; target station apparatus for receiving and mounting therein the target capsule apparatus. The target station apparatus is engaged with a cyclotron for irradiating the Mo-100-coated target plate with protons. The irradiated target capsule apparatus is transferred to a receiving cell apparatus comprising a dissolution/purification module for receiving therein a proton-irradiated Mo-100-coated target plate. A conveyance conduit infrastructure interconnects: (i) the target capsule pickup apparatus with the target station apparatus, (ii) the target station apparatus and the receiving cell apparatus; and (iii) the receiving cell apparatus and the dissolution/purification module.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2021
Date of Patent:
May 30, 2023
Assignee:
TRIUMF INC.
Inventors:
Paul Schaffer, Francois Benard, Kenneth R. Buckley, Victoire Hanemaayer, Cornelia Manuela Hoehr, Julius Alexander Klug, Michael S. Kovacs, Thomas J. Morley, Thomas J. Ruth, John Valliant, Stefan K. Zeisler, Maurice G. Dodd
Abstract: A target system for irradiation of molybdenum with charged particles from an accelerator to produce technetium and molybdenum radioisotopes. The target system comprises a molybdenum-100 material brazed with a brazing alloy to a backing material. The backing material preferably comprises a dispersion-strengthened copper composite. The brazing alloy comprises copper and phosphorus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 24, 2015
Date of Patent:
November 16, 2021
Assignee:
TRIUMF INC.
Inventors:
Stefan K. Zeisler, Victoire Hanemaayer, Kenneth R. Buckley