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US 11,894,157 B2Granted
Segmented reaction chamber for radioisotope production
AssigneeSHINE Technologies, LLC
InventorsGregory Piefer, Thomas Rockwell Mackie
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Abstract
A reactor that is operable to produce an isotope includes a region for containing a controlled nuclear fission reaction, the region segmented into a plurality of independent compartments, each of the compartments for containing a parent material in an aqueous solution that interacts with neutrons to produce the isotope via a fission reaction. Also provided are methods of producing an isotope using the same.
Claims20
A method of producing an isotope, the method comprising:
- positioning a parent material in an aqueous solution within an annular activation cell for containing controlled nuclear fission reactions, the annular activation cell segmented into n independent compartments, wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, wherein the n compartments are radially disposed about a central axis of the annular activation cell, wherein the n compartments collectively comprise the annular activation cell that is concentrically disposed about a target chamber, and wherein each of the n compartments is configured for containing the parent material in the aqueous solution;
- reacting, in at least one of the n compartments over a time period y, neutrons with the parent material to produce the isotope via fission reactions in the at least one of the n compartments;
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- extracting the aqueous solution comprising the isotope from at least one of the n compartments.
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A method of producing an isotope, the method comprising:
- reacting, in at least one compartment of a plurality of compartments of an annular activation cell, neutrons with a parent material that is positioned in an aqueous solution and contained within the annular activation cell to produce the isotope via fission reactions in the at least one compartment, wherein the plurality of compartments are radially disposed about a central axis of the annular activation cell and the central axis traverses a target chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.