Thermal hydraulic simulation of a channel with targets for production of selenium-75 isotope

Abstract

It is emphasized the importance of using radioisotope products in industry, science and medicine. Information is given on the generation of isotope products in the IVV-2M research reactor of Research Institute of Nuclear Materials, and the plans for expanding the range of radioisotopes produced. The features of the selenium-75 isotope production are described. The necessity of thermohydraulic simulation of the target for producing selenium-75 in the conditions of the IVV-2M reactor is substantiated. The process of constructing a solid-state model of the target and simulating the thermal conditions for the production of isotopes is described. In this work, the analysis of thermohydraulic processes was performed with Solidworks Flow Simulation software. © 2020 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.