Generator supply chain

Question 1

What is a nuclear reactor?

Answer 1

• a structure capable of housing and controlling nuclear reactors
• used for :
• power supply
• research
• medical isotope production

Question 2

What is the uranium enrichment process

Answer 2

enrichment is either done by
- gaseous diffusion (40%)
- centrifuge enrichment (60%)
- Enrichment separates lighter 235-U from heavier 238-U

Question 3

List 99-Mo transportation logistics

Answer 3

• Nature of the product
• availability of flights
• Time=decay, any delay in transport cancause significant decay
• weather (delays)
• Expense

Question 4

Explain TRIUMF

Answer 4

• Canada’s particle accelerator
• founded 1968
• vancouver BC
• Goal is to provide centralised resources to support isotope science and technology advancement
• cyclomed99
• direct on-target production of 99m-Tc using medical cyclotron
• Uses modifief existing cyclotron infrastructure