[Isotope-prod] Fwd: Isotope Test

[Andrew Hutton]

Everyone

Here is the (belated) reply from Dennis Phillips, who is in charge of R&D for the ONP Isotope Program.  

I think a positive result from our next gallium irradiation would be a great help for our chances for funding.  

Thanks to you all for your enthusiasm and expertise in our joint endeavor.

Andrew

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Phillips, Dennis" <Dennis.Phillips at science.doe.gov>
> Subject: RE: Isotope Test
> Date: June 20, 2017 at 3:36:58 PM EDT
> To: Andrew Hutton <andrew at jlab.org>, "Gillo, Jehanne" <Jehanne.Gillo at science.doe.gov>, "Balkin, Ethan R." <Ethan.Balkin at science.doe.gov>
> Cc: Henderson Stuart <stuart at jlab.org>, "Arango, Joe" <arango at jlab.org>, "LOG DOE" <doelog at jlab.org>, Areti Hari <areti at jlab.org>, "'Brooks, Marc'" <Marc.Brooks at dhs.gov>
> 
> Dear Andrew,
> 
> Thanks for sharing the results of your "engineering run" to look at the feasibility of using your facilities and collaborators to produce Cu-67 on a natural gallium target.  Very interesting.  It is clear that though the experiment was challenging in several ways, you learned a lot from it.  
> 
> Decisions about funding of proposals from FOA 16-1588  out of the FY18 Isotope Program appropriation will likely be made in the late summer or fall of this calendar year.  We cannot be specific about this until we have a more clear picture about the FY18 budget.  However your proposal is still on the list of several under consideration.
> 
> Unfortunately the uncertainties are also impacting our office travel budgets.  So for now, only the most critical travel is being approved for personnel in our office programs.  Thus it is unclear when we might have an opportunity to accept your invitation to see first-hand your proposed isotope production facility. 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Dennis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hutton [mailto:andrew at jlab.org] 
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 3:06 PM
> To: Gillo, Jehanne <Jehanne.Gillo at science.doe.gov>; Balkin, Ethan R. <Ethan.Balkin at science.doe.gov>; Phillips, Dennis <Dennis.Phillips at science.doe.gov>
> Cc: Henderson Stuart <stuart at jlab.org>; Arango, Joe <arango at jlab.org>; LOG DOE <doelog at jlab.org>; Areti Hari <areti at jlab.org>
> Subject: Isotope Test
> 
> Dear Jehanne
> 
> As you are well aware, the CHL cold boxes required for normal CEBAF operations have been switched off for some time due to the problems with the compressors.  We took the opportunity to set up the CEBAF Injector to evaluate our ability to deliver quality beams with the superconducting cavities at 4K.  This has been a real success, opening the opportunity to carrying out small experiments in the Injector, while waiting for 2K.  We therefore tried a small test of producing Cu67 from Gallium.  I am attaching a synopsis of the results - the good, the bad and the ugly!   
> 
> All the best
> 
> Andrew
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