MANUFACTURING METHOD OF RADIOACTIVE MOLYBDENUM, MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND RADIOACTIVE MOLYBDENUM MANUFACTURED THEREBY

摘要

An efficient process for producing radioactive molybdenum 99Mo being a pa rent nuclide of radioactive technetium (99mTc) as a radioactive diagnostic a gent, in which uranium is not used as a raw material. Efficient production o f 99Mo is carried out by irradiating with neutron an aqueous solution of Mo having an Mo compound dissolved in water in an irradiation capsule installed in a nuclear reactor core so as to generate 99Mo through 98Mo(n,.gamma.) re action and recovering the aqueous solution of Mo continuously or batchwise.< /SDOAB>