Mo-99 Recovery System (IMAGE)

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Mo-99 Recovery System

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Argonne scientific associate James Byrnes performs maintenance on a remote system that is used to recover molybdenum-99 from an irradiated target in a process recently demonstrated by Argonne. The operation is performed remotely due to high radiation fields in the target.

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