Patent ID: 9047998
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G21G

Abstract:
1. A method of producing radionuclides, which includes in an irradiation zone, irradiating a target medium comprising at least a target nuclide material, with neutron irradiation, thereby causing radionuclides to form in the target nuclide material, with at least some of the formed radionuclides being ejected from the target nuclide material; capturing and collecting the ejected radionuclides in a recoil capture material which is selected from amorphous carbon, carbon allotropes and mixtures thereof, the amorphous carbon and/or carbon allotropes not having an empty cage structure at crystallographic level, with the ejected radionuclides thereby being concentrated or enriched in the recoil capture material relative to cold nuclei; and recovering the captured radionuclides from the recoil capture material.