Title: Radioisotope - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
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Radioisotope
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Radioisotope thermoelectric generators
Diagnostic radioisotopes in haematology
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Radiation Sources and Detectors
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Mankind Benefits From Nuclear Energy and Radiation
Radioisotopes in space
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Diagnostic Radioisotopes in Haematology
Sources of radioisotopes
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Radiation Sources and Detectors
K. Hashimoto, Y. Nagai, in Comprehensive Biomedical Physics, 2014
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Radionuclides for medical use are produced in nuclear reactors and particle accelerators. The thermal neutron fluxes in nuclear reactors are several orders of magnitude higher than those of other neutron sources, such as accelerator neutrons. Hence, nuclear reactors have played an important role in the production of large quantities of medical radionuclides that have half-lives longer than several days. Accelerators can produce medical radionuclides with half-lives longer than several minutes. However, recent advances in accelerator and target technology will allow the creation of high-flux bremsstrahlung and intense energetic accelerator neutrons and, thereby, the study of new techniques to produce medical radionuclides. View chapter Purchase book
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Mankind Benefits From Nuclear Energy and Radiation
Ian Hore-Lacy, in Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, 2020
Radioisotopes in space
Radioisotope power sources have been an important source of energy in space since 1961. Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) have been the main electricity source for space work. The high decay heat of plutonium-238 (0.56 W/g) enables its use as an electricity source in the RTGs of spacecraft, satellites and navigation beacons.