Technical Services (performed by ORNL's Stable Isotope Group)
Arc melting, casting, alloying, and drop casting
Techniques used for the preparation of metal ingots and reclamation materials, such as foil trimmings, for further processing
Custom targets
Various custom target forms can be fabricated such as foils, pellets, or and discs
Diamond abrasive wire sawing
A technique used to cut materials with minimal losses
Enriched gases
Transfer of high-purity enriched gases into small high-pressure cylinders
High vacuum evaporation
These techniques use resistance, Rf induction, or electron beam heating to prepare thin films and coatings from metals, oxides, and other compounds
Hot and cold rolling
Processes used to produce metal foils from the millimeter to micron thickness range
Inorganic compound synthesis, metallurgical, ceramic, and high-vacuum processing methods
Techniques used to process stable isotopes into the desired chemical or physical forms to meet customer needs
Ion beam and plasma sputtering
Processes used to produce thin films and coatings
Metal and ceramic powder consolidation techniques
Processes include cold pressing, sintering, and vacuum hot pressing
Pulse arc welding
This technique is used for joining metals
Pyrochemical conversion techniques
To convert rare earth and Group IIA elements from oxides to high purity metal via reduction/distillation
Wire casting, rolling, and swaging processes
These techniques are used to prepare metal rods and wires
Radioactive Isotope Services (performed at ANL, BNL, LANL, and/or ORNL)
Custom chemical and physical forms
Preparation of a variety of radioisotopes may be possible
Nuclear medicine
Providing radioisotopes and support for the development of diagnostic and therapeutic radioisotopes and clinical trials
Target irradiations
Target irradiations may be supplied to the customer without processing
