title: Computational simulation ofnatUO2,232ThO2and U3O8-Al pills to estimate (p,fission)99Mo yield in the modeled targets irradiated by CYCLONE30 accelerator.
abstract: 99Mo is important for both therapy and imaging purposes. Accelerator and reactor-based procedures are applied to produce it. Newly proton-fission method has been taken in attention by some research centers. In the present work, computationally investigation of the99Mo yield in different fissionable targets irradiated by proton was aimed. The results showed UO2pill target could be efficiently used to produce 11.12Ci/g-U saturation yield of99Mo using 25MeV proton irradiation of the optimized-dimension target with 70µA current.
authors.affiliation: Reactor Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: avaziri@aeoi.org.ir.
authors.forename: Atieh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jozvaziri
authors.affiliation: Reactor Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Zohreh
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gholamzadeh
authors.affiliation: Radiation application School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Kamran
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yousefi
authors.affiliation: Reactor Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Seyed Mohammad
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Mirvakili
authors.affiliation: Reactor Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Masoomeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alizadeh
authors.affiliation: Radiation application School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammadreza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aboudzadeh
keywords: (99)Mo production; 30MeV Cyclotron; Accelerator-based procedure; MCNPX2.6.0 code; Pill target