Sandia Corporation

Edward J Parma

Robert Charles Moore

Milton Edward Vernon

Roger X Lenard

Paul S Pickard

Fred Gelbard

Richard L Coats

A small, low-enriched, passively safe, low-power nuclear reactor comprises a core of target and fuel pins that can be processed to produce the medical isotopeMo and other fission product isotopes. The fuel for the reactor and the targets for theMo production are the same. The fuel can be low enriched uranium oxide, enriched to less than 20%U. The reactor power level can be 1 to 2 MW. The reactor is passively safe and maintains negative reactivity coefficients. The total radionuclide inventory in the reactor core is minimized since the fuel/target pins are removed and processed after 7 to 21 days.

Target-fueled nuclear reactor for medical isotope production

A method and apparatus, constructed of ceramics and other corrosion resistant materials, for decomposing sulfuric acid into sulfur dioxide, oxygen and water using an integrated boiler, superheater, and decomposer unit comprising a bayonet-type, dual-tube, counter-flow heat exchanger with a catalytic insert and a central baffle to increase recuperation efficiency.

Integrated boiler, superheater, and decomposer for sulfuric acid decomposition

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Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Edward J Parma