Investigation on Theoretical and Experimental Parameters in The Production and Quality Control of Zinc-65 Radioactive Source

Zinc-65 radioactive source was produced for medicine, agriculture, and industrial applications in Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute. According to available facilities, 65Cu(p, n)65Zn reaction was applied. The incident proton beam energy was obtained via Alice 91 and Talys 1.0 nuclear codes and Srim-2012 code was used for the determination of target thickness. Considering the obtained results, a 190 μm target was bombarded with a 150 μA current of 29.8 MeV proton beam for 7 hours. Finally, zinc-65 was separated with chemical methods based on the ion-exchange chromatography method and zinc-65 radioactive sources with radioactivity of 402 µCi were produced.