Nuclear and Physical Methods and Technologies

Package for Radio-Pharmaceutical Product Transportation

I-131 Radioisotope Use. Scintigram of Thyroid Gland

Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Equipment Set Presented by Japanese People

Vacuum Facility for Ion-Plasma Synthesis

One of the priority directions of the National Nuclear Center RK activity is the development of nuclear-physical methods and high technologies.

Nuclear and radiation technologies are basic tools of present-day economy. Development and use of such technologies in Kazakhstan will help to resign many inefficient and labor consuming standard developments applied in medicine, industry and agriculture.

Kazakhstan cyclotron produces isotopes for needs of the Republic and neighboring regions. Regular production of Tl-201, Co-57 is established, Ga-67, Cd-109 will be produced in the near future. Another important cyclotron production is a tracer used in radioecology. In particular, plutonium sources are used as radioactive tracers to determine plutonium in soil samples.

To produce domestic Tc-99m and I-131 reactor radioisotopes the production techniques were developed at WWR-K reactor.

NNC RK scientists and specialists are very experienced in the field of nuclear analytics. Methods to determine elemental structure of environmental samples by activation analysis and roentgen fluorescent analysis are developed. The methods are certified for the right to monitor environmental objects, rocks, ores and minerals by the RK Committee of Standardization, Metrology and Certification.

High operation indices of protective coatings made of transitional element nitrides, precious metals and materials with certain physical properties are rather promising in preventing premature degradation of structural materials. The quality of coatings obtained depends on the method used in its manufacturing. Ion-plasma technologies provide various options to apply protective coatings. NNC specialists developed, manufactured and assembled a magnetron facility and auxiliary equipment for applying niobium nitride coating on metal tape samples. A process to form a thin superconducting layer on metal substrate has been developed and its technological parameters are determined. Materials are selected and technological modes to form intermediate adhesive layers are tested.