ISOTOPE AVAILABILITY ALERT: Uranium-234 Back in Inventory

NIDC

NIDC

Following several years of constrained supply, the U.S. Department of Energy Isotope Program has replenished its inventory and is accepting new orders for the radioisotope uranium-234 (U-234), which is most commonly used to prolong the life of flux monitors for nuclear power plants. The available U-234 is recovered via chemical ion-exchange from substantial amounts of aged plutonium-238 housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The U-234 (half-life of 246,000 years) has a theoretical specific activity of 6.23 mCi/g and a radioisotopic purity of >99%. It is sold in oxide (U3O8) form.

 

Quotation requests for U-234 may be placed using the National Isotope Development Center’s Online Catalog of Isotope Products.