April 1, 2016
Journal Article

Real-time Stack Monitoring at the BaTek Medical Isotope Production Facility

Abstract

Radioxenon emissions from radiopharmaceutical production are a major source of background concentrations affecting the radioxenon detection systems of the International Monitoring System (IMS). Collection of real-time emissions data from production facilities makes it possible to screen out some medical isotope signatures from the IMS radioxenon data sets. This paper describes an effort to obtain and analyze real-time stack emissions data with the design, construction and installation of a small stack monitoring system developed by a joint CTBTO-IDC, BATAN, and PNNL team at the BaTek medical isotope production facility near Jakarta, Indonesia.

Revised: March 24, 2016 | Published: April 1, 2016

Citation

McIntyre J.I., A. Agusbudiman, I.M. Cameron, J.R. Dumais, P.W. Eslinger, A. Gheddou, and K. Khrustalev, et al. 2016. Real-time Stack Monitoring at the BaTek Medical Isotope Production Facility. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 308, no. 1:311-316. PNNL-SA-108357. doi:10.1007/s10967-015-4348-2