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Content: 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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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. Its intense alpha decay process with negligible gamma radiation calls for minimal shielding. Americium-241, with 0.15 W/g, is another source of energy, favored by the European Space Agency, though it has some relatively low-energy gamma radiation. In an RTG, heat from the oxide fuel is converted to electricity through static thermoelectric elements (solid-state thermocouples), with no moving parts. RTGs are safe, reliable and maintenance-free and can provide heat or electricity for decades under very harsh conditions, particularly where solar power is not feasible. So far over 45 RTGs have powered over 25 US space vehicles including Apollo, Pioneer, Viking, Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses and New Horizons space missions as well as many civil and military satellites.