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Medical isotope production, research reactors and their contribution to the global xenon background

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans the testing of nuclear explosive devices underground, in the atmosphere and underwater. Two main technologies, radionuclide and seismo-acoustic monitoring, are deployed in the International Monitoring System used for the verification of the CTBT....

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Autores principales: Hoffman, Ian, Berg, Rodney
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30369686
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6128-2
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description The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans the testing of nuclear explosive devices underground, in the atmosphere and underwater. Two main technologies, radionuclide and seismo-acoustic monitoring, are deployed in the International Monitoring System used for the verification of the CTBT. Medical isotope production from fission-based processes is the dominant contributor to a worldwide background of radioxenon. This background can make the discrimination of nuclear tests from legitimate nuclear activities very challenging. Even if emissions from medical isotope producers experienced a large reduction, there remain other important sources of radioxenon that contribute to the global background such as research reactors and nuclear power plants. Until recently, the largest producer of medical isotopes was located in Canada, at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) facility. The characterization of CNL emissions and its research reactor can provide valuable information for effective verification of the CTBT.
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spelling pubmed-61827392018-10-24 Medical isotope production, research reactors and their contribution to the global xenon background Hoffman, Ian Berg, Rodney J Radioanal Nucl Chem Article The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans the testing of nuclear explosive devices underground, in the atmosphere and underwater. Two main technologies, radionuclide and seismo-acoustic monitoring, are deployed in the International Monitoring System used for the verification of the CTBT. Medical isotope production from fission-based processes is the dominant contributor to a worldwide background of radioxenon. This background can make the discrimination of nuclear tests from legitimate nuclear activities very challenging. Even if emissions from medical isotope producers experienced a large reduction, there remain other important sources of radioxenon that contribute to the global background such as research reactors and nuclear power plants. Until recently, the largest producer of medical isotopes was located in Canada, at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) facility. The characterization of CNL emissions and its research reactor can provide valuable information for effective verification of the CTBT. Springer International Publishing 2018-08-25 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6182739/ /pubmed/30369686 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6128-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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