[Isotope-prod] Copper walls for the Gallium volume

[George Neil]

Do we know if the copper precipitates or ordinarily stays dissolved in Ga?
George


On 10/19/2015 1:02 PM, Pavel Degtiarenko wrote:
> 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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