Abstract:
89SrCl
2 is an important radioactive drug for the bone metastasis. It is included in the new pharmacopoeia in 2015 and has a promising future in the market. Depending on the high flux engineering test reactor(HFETR), the process of preparation of high specific activity
89SrCl
2 solution by nuclear reaction
88Sr(n, γ)
89Sr was studied. High purity enriched
88SrCO
3 was used as target material and irradiated for 56 days under the condition of thermal neutron fluence rate about 2×10
14 n•cm
-2•s
-1. After dissolution and filtration, the colorless
89SrCl2 solution was obtained. The specific activity of
89SrCl
2 solution was 7.77×10
9-1.08×10
10 Bq•g
-1, the activity concentration was 3.59×10
8-1.21×10
9 Bq•mL
-1, the gamma impurity content was 0.11%-0.14%, the Al impurity content was much lower than 2 μg•mL
-1(activity concentration 7.4×10
7 Bq• mL
-1).
89SrCl
2 solution had been tested to meet the requirements of the industry and could be used as raw material for the production of injection. The development of single 7.4×10
10 Bq level preparation device of high purity and high specific activity of
89Sr had been finished. This research is important for localization of isotope products.