Development of New Target Stations for the South African Isotope Facility
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Gideon F. Steyn *, Lyndon S. Anthony, Faiçal Azaiez, Shadley Baard, Robert A. Bark, A. Hugo Barnard, Philip Beukes, Johan I. Broodryk, J. Lowry Conradie, John C. Cornell, J. Garrett De Villiers, Stuart G. Dolley, Herman Du Plessis, William D. Duckitt, Dirk T. Fourie, Mike E. Hogan, Ivan H. Kohler, Jacobus J. Lawrie, Chris Lussi, Joele P. Mira, K. Vuyo Mjali, Hendrik W. Mostert, Clive Naidoo, Fhumulani Nemulodi, David Saal, Nieldane P. Stodart, Reiner W. Thomae, Johan Van Niekerk and Pieter A. Van Schalkwyk
Gideon F. Steyn *, Lyndon S. Anthony, Faiçal Azaiez, Shadley Baard, Robert A. Bark, A. Hugo Barnard, Philip Beukes, Johan I. Broodryk, J. Lowry Conradie, John C. Cornell, J. Garrett De Villiers, Stuart G. Dolley, Herman Du Plessis, William D. Duckitt, Dirk T. Fourie, Mike E. Hogan, Ivan H. Kohler, Jacobus J. Lawrie, Chris Lussi, Joele P. Mira, K. Vuyo Mjali, Hendrik W. Mostert, Clive Naidoo, Fhumulani Nemulodi, David Saal, Nieldane P. Stodart, Reiner W. Thomae, Johan Van Niekerk and Pieter A. Van Schalkwyk
iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Old Faure Road, Somerset West 7129, South Africa
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Instruments 2018, 2(4), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/instruments2040029
Received: 9 November 2018 / Revised: 4 December 2018 / Accepted: 6 December 2018 / Published: 10 December 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Instruments and Methods for Cyclotron Produced Radioisotopes)
The development of new target stations for radioisotope production based on a dedicated 70 MeV commercial cyclotron (for protons) is described. Currently known as the South African Isotope Facility (SAIF), this initiative will free the existing separated-sector cyclotron (SSC) at iThemba LABS (near Cape Town) to mainly pursue research activities in nuclear physics and radiobiology. It is foreseen that the completed SAIF facility will realize a three-fold increase in radioisotope production capacity compared to the current programme based on the SSC.
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Keywords:
radionuclide production; target stations; targetry; 70 MeV cyclotron
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Steyn, G.F.; Anthony, L.S.; Azaiez, F.; Baard, S.; Bark, R.A.; Barnard, A.H.; Beukes, P.; Broodryk, J.I.; Conradie, J.L.; Cornell, J.C.; De Villiers, J.G.; Dolley, S.G.; Du Plessis, H.; Duckitt, W.D.; Fourie, D.T.; Hogan, M.E.; Kohler, I.H.; Lawrie, J.J.; Lussi, C.; Mira, J.P.; Mjali, K.V.; Mostert, H.W.; Naidoo, C.; Nemulodi, F.; Saal, D.; Stodart, N.P.; Thomae, R.W.; Van Niekerk, J.; Van Schalkwyk, P.A. Development of New Target Stations for the South African Isotope Facility. Instruments 2018, 2, 29.
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