title: The potential detection of low-level aerosol isotopes from new civilian nuclear processes.
abstract: As the world faces a challenging future in maintaining the commercial availability of radioactive isotopes for medical use, new methods of medical isotope production are being pursued. Many of these are small in size and could effectively operate continuously. With the potential for much shorter retention times, a new suite of isotopes may soon be found in the environment. The authors estimate that many more aerosols containing low-level isotopes of gas/volatile origin could be detectable at short range and times, and a few at longer ranges and times as compared to those released in more common nuclear reactor operations.
authors.affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 99352.
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Miley
authors.affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 99352.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Burnett
authors.affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 99352.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Foxe
authors.affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, 78712.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Haas
authors.affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 99352.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Keillor
authors.affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 99352.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Lowrey
authors.affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 99352.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Mayer
authors.affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 99352.
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: McIntyre
authors.affiliation: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA, 99352.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Wood