Development of New Target Stations for the South African Isotope Facility

Gideon F. Steyn; Lyndon S. Anthony; Faical Azaiez; Shadley Baard; Robert A. Bark; A. Hugo Barnard; Philip Beukes; Johan I. Broodryk; J. Lowry Conradie; John C. Cornell; J. Garrett de Villiers; Stuart G. Dolley; Herman du Plessis; William D. Duckitt; Dirk T. Fourie; Mike E. Hogan; Ivan H. Kohler; Kobus J. Lawrie; Chris Lussi; Joele P. Mira; K. Vuyo Mjali; Hendrik W. Mostert; Clive Naidoo; Fhumulani Nemulodi; David Saal; Nieldane P. Stodart; Rainer W. Thomae; Johan van Niekerk; Pieter A. van Schalkwyk

doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0369.v1

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Development of New Target Stations for the South African Isotope Facility

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Abstract

The development of new target stations for radioisotope production based on a dedicated 70~MeV commercial cyclotron is described. Currently known as the South African Isotope Facility (SAIF), this initiative will free the existing separated-sector cyclotron (SSC) at iThemba LABS (near Cape Town) to mainly pursue research activities in nuclear physics and radiobiology. It is foreseen that the completed SAIF facility will realize a three-fold increase in radioisotope production capacity compared to the current programme based on the SSC.

Keywords:

radionuclide production

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target stations

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targetry

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70 MeV cyclotron

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physics

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