Methodological and Engineering Approaches to Isotope Production in the IVV-2M Reactor

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Technological advances associated with the production of radioisotope products in the IVV-2M reactor have been made at the Institute of Reactor Materials. The design of the core and the operating regimes were changed, and the useful neutron load of the reactor was doubled. Novel approaches are presented to the production of high-activity ¹⁹²Ir in a medium-flux reactor, ¹⁴C production by irradiation of aluminum nitride with efficient use of reactor resources and ¹³¹Cs by methods giving 99.99% purity, and the possibility of using barium carbonate with native ¹³⁰Ba content 0.1% as the target material, as well as ¹⁷⁷Lu. The most significant achievement is the implementation of a design for creating an intense neutrino source based on ³⁷Ar for the international project SAGE.