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5.) The U.S. uses 6,000 - 7,000 6-day curies per week. 6-day curies = amount of Mo-99 left after 6 days ( half life is 66 hours < 3 days). <math>\Rightarrow</math> 14,000 curies per week. | 5.) The U.S. uses 6,000 - 7,000 6-day curies per week. 6-day curies = amount of Mo-99 left after 6 days ( half life is 66 hours < 3 days). <math>\Rightarrow</math> 14,000 curies per week. | ||
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Revision as of 03:48, 11 January 2009
The above report suggests that
1.) you get about when a 30 MeV electron beam hits a converter like Tungsten producing photons which hit a 5 cm thick Moly target. A 100 kW electron beam could make about 800 Ci/s of Mo-99.
2.) The X-sect peaks at 160 mbarns when the photon energy is 15 MeV:(photofission of Mo-100 and U-238 have similar X-sections)
3.) single neutron emissions makes up about 60% of the photofission X-section X-sect is about 96 mbarns when photon energy is 15 MeV
4.) 40 million nuclear medicine procedures are performed each year, 20 million in the US. 80% of those procedures use Mo-99.
5.) The U.S. uses 6,000 - 7,000 6-day curies per week. 6-day curies = amount of Mo-99 left after 6 days ( half life is 66 hours < 3 days). 14,000 curies per week.
Combining "1" and "5" means I need a 12 Watt dedicated electron machine to make Mo-99 each week for the U.S.?