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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2009
Melissa Allen, Wilmington, NC (US);
Nicholas R. Gilman, Broomfield, CO (US);
Heather Hatton, Wilmington, NC (US);
William Earl Russell, Ii, Wilmington, NC (US);
Melissa Allen, Wilmington, NC (US);
Nicholas R. Gilman, Broomfield, CO (US);
Heather Hatton, Wilmington, NC (US);
William Earl Russell, II, Wilmington, NC (US);
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC, Wilmington, NC (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments are directed to methods of producing desired isotopes in commercial nuclear reactors and associated apparatuses using instrumentation tubes conventionally found in nuclear reactor vessels to expose irradiation targets to neutron flux found in the operating nuclear reactor. Example embodiments include assemblies for retention and producing radioisotopes in nuclear reactors and instrumentation tubes thereof. Example embodiments include one or more retention assemblies that contain one or more irradiation targets and are useable with example delivery systems that permit delivery of irradiation targets. Example embodiments may be sized, shaped, fabricated, and otherwise configured to successfully move through example delivery systems and conventional instrumentation tubes while containing irradiation targets and desired isotopes produced therefrom.