Radiation Protection Consideration during Construction, Commissioning and Production of Mo-99 with a 40 kW 35 MeV Electron Linac at the Canadian Light Source

摘要

We have initiated commissioning the Medical Isotope production system with a linac (40 kW and 35 MeV Electrons) where the electrons bombarded on a heavy metal converter generating Bremsstrahlung photons that undergo ~(100)Mo(γ,n)~(99)Mo photonuclear reaction. Issues of providing adequate radiation shielding and containment of the hazards due to activated products will be presented. Monte Carlo simulations are performed with FLUKA to generate the dose profiles of electron, gamma and neutron.