[Isotope-prod] Copper walls for the Gallium volume
Pavel Degtiarenko
pavel at jlab.org
Mon Oct 19 13:02:25 EDT 2015
Hi All,
In the proposed target system with liquid Ga cooled by Copper heat
exchanger, there might be a chance that Cu-67 generated in Ga will not
stay in Ga as alloy, but would be deposited at the cold walls as a
copper "frost". Then if it's Copper on Copper, there will be no chance
to separate it from the wall. I guess a different non-wetting/non-sticky
inert material should be used, may be sort of a thermoconductive glass
or ceramics. The vessel then would need to be flushed with something
that dissolves copper, upon the removal of Gallium.
That would be another question to professionals.
Regards,
Pavel
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