Computer Study of Isotope Production for Medical and Industrial Applications inHigh Power Accelerators

摘要

Methods for radionuclide production calculation in a high power protonaccelerator have been developed and applied to study production of 22 isotopes. These methods are readily applicable both to accelerator and reactor environments and to the production of other radioactive and stable isotopes. We have also developed methods for evaluating cross sections from a wide variety of sources into a single cross section set and have produced an evaluated library covering about a third of all natural elements that may be expanded to other reactions.