A computer study of radionuclide production in high power accelerators formedical and industrial applications

Methods for radionuclide production calculation in a high power proton acce lerator have been developed and applied to study production of 22 isotopes by high-energy protons and neutrons. These methods are readily applicable t o accelerator. and reactor, environments other than the particular model we considered and to the production of other radioactive and stable isotopes. We have also developed methods for evaluating cross sections from a wide v ariety of sources into a single cross section set and have produced an eval uated library covering about a third of all natural elements. These methods also are applicable to an expanded set of reactions. A 684 page detailed r eport on this study, with 37 tables and 264 color figures is available on t he Web at http://t2.lanl.gov/publications/publications,html or, if not acce ssible, in hard copy from the authors. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Scien ce B.V.