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NorthStar Helium Cooling System. Final Report on LANL Contribution

Woloshun, Keith Albert·Olivas, Eric Richard
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From the beginning of NNSA support to the NorthStar development of a production facility for the medical isotope Molybdenum-99 (Mo99), LANL has been responsible for the design and testing of a target and its cooling. The target is comprised of a stack of Mo100 disks separated by coolant flow gaps between the disks and between the first disk and a housing window, which separates the target and its coolant from the vacuum of the beam line. The target, and therefore its cooling requirements, evolved steadily over the years of system development

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Woloshun, Keith Albert, Olivas, Eric Richard. 2022-04-19. NorthStar Helium Cooling System. Final Report on LANL Contribution. https://doi.org/10.2172/1864956

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