Timeline for How much Uranium would a country like Iran need to produce for supplying its Technetium needs?
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| S Jun 3, 2023 at 1:16 | history | suggested | Kevin Dietrich | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2023 at 12:59 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 12:41 | comment | added | Jon Custer | NRU was a 135MW reactor. HFR is a 60MW reactor, now using low-enriched fuel. HFR is slated to be replaced by a 80MW reactor. NRU and HFR were fairly small systems, designed with experiments (which lead to isotope production). As of the late 1990s the HRF used about 40kg/yr of HEU, total amount of Uranium in the LEU fuels is going to be about that order of magnitude. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 7:49 | comment | added | einpoklum | @JonCuster: 1. Ok, but - how large of a reactor? That's why I asked about Kilograms of enriched material, since that's a statistic we have quantified about Iran from the IAEA. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 1:00 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| May 31, 2023 at 23:17 | comment | added | Jon Custer | From Wikipedia: “Global shortages of technetium-99m emerged in the late 2000s because two aging nuclear reactors (NRU and HFR) that provided about two-thirds of the world's supply of molybdenum-99, which itself has a half-life of only 66 hours, were shut down repeatedly for extended maintenance periods.“ So, one reactor would supply a significant fraction of the world’s demand. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 21:22 | history | edited | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S May 31, 2023 at 21:15 | history | asked | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |