CAPABILITIES OF SUPERPURE ACTINIDE AND STABLE-ISOTOPE PRODUCT IN RUSSIAN FEDERAL NUCLEAR-CENTER

The paper describes the production of highly enriched isotopes of uran ium, plutonium and curium by means of electromagnetic separation for s cientific and applied research in physics, chemistry, geology and othe r field. The equipment and radiochemical methods used allows to provid e the isotopic pure samples in quantities sufficient to set up nuclear physics experiments, to produce reference materials and standard sour ces for calibration of radiometrical and mass spectrometrical equipmen t and for use in radionuclear metrology. Methods of fabrication of spe cial sources or targets and layers of highly enriched isotopes on vari ous substrated are presented. The brief information on developing stab le isotope production program is also presented.