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Mirror-Enhanced Plasma Separation Process (MPSP) for Production of Large Quantities of Isotopes

Award Information
Agency: Department of Energy
Branch: N/A
Contract: DE-FG02-08ER84985
Agency Tracking Number: N/A
Amount: $99,900.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: 37 b
Solicitation Number: DE-PS02-07ER07-36
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
13704 Saticoy Street
Panorama City, CA 91402
United States
DUNS: 128486284
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Alred Wong
 Dr.
 (310) 592-1106
 awong@nidnano.com
Business Contact
 James Capizzi
Title: Mr.
Phone: (310) 927-8187
Email: jcapizzi@nidnano.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Large quantities of certain separated isotopes, such as Ge-76, Se-82, Te-130, and Xe-136, are needed in radiation detector systems for rare particle and rare decay detection in nuclear physics research. Such needs cannot be addressed by existing isotope separation technologies, such as centrifuges and Calutrons. This project will develop an advanced Mirror-Enhance Plasma Separation Process (MPSP) for separating large quantities of needed isotopes efficiently and inexpensively. Although MPSP is based on the PSP (Plasma Separation Process) technique, it yields significantly higher efficiency and throughput. MPSP has been used to successfully separate 37Rb87 from the naturally occurring 27.83% to over 96%. Commercial Applications and other Benefits as described by the awardee: In addition to the application for nuclear physics, stable isotopes are precursors for most of the medical radioactive isotopes used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Stable isotopes also are used as specialized industrial materials in nuclear power plants (non-fuel), electronics, non-destructive testing, etc.

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