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Satija S, Domnanich KA, Bence JA, Vyas CK, Abel EP, Kleinfeldt C, Essenmacher S, Kalman M, Walker W, Despotopulos JD, Scielzo ND, Shusterman JA, Severin GW. Harvesting 88Zr from heavy-ion beam irradiated tungsten at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Appl Radiat Isot 2023; 197:110831. [PMID: 37130469 DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
Tungsten is a commonly used material at many heavy-ion beam facilities, and it often becomes activated due to interactions with a beam. Many of the activation products are useful in basic and applied sciences if they can be recovered efficiently. In order to develop the radiochemistry for harvesting group (IV) elements from irradiated tungsten, a heavy-ion beam containing 88Zr was embedded into a stack of tungsten foils at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and a separation methodology was devised to recover the 88Zr. The foils were dissolved in 30% hydrogen peroxide, and the 88Zr was chemically purified from the tungsten matrix and from other co-implanted radionuclides (such as 85Sr and 88Y) using strong cation-exchange (AG MP-50) chromatographic resin in sulfuric acid media. The procedure provided 88Zr in approximately 60 mL 0.5 M sulfuric acid with no detectable radio-impurities. The overall recovery yield for 88Zr was (92.3 ± 1.2)%. This proof-of-concept experiment has facilitated the development of methodologies to harvest from tungsten and tungsten-alloy parts that are regularly irradiated at heavy-ion beam facilities.
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Affiliation(s)
- Samridhi Satija
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA; Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA; Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10065, USA; Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA; Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA; Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA; Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10065, USA; Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, USA; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA; Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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Bence JA, Satija S, Domnanich KA, Despotopulos JD, Abel EP, Clause HK, Essenmacher S, Kalman M, Kleinfeldt C, Kmak KN, Parsons-Davis T, Vyas CK, Walker W, Scielzo ND, Severin GW, Shusterman JA. Solid-phase isotope harvesting of 88Zr from a radioactive ion beam facility. Appl Radiat Isot 2022; 189:110414. [DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2022.110414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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