Characterization of actinide resin for separation of 51,52gMn from bulk target material.

Abstract

We report an extraction chromatography-based method via Actinide Resin for the isolation of radio-manganese from both natural chromium and isotopically enriched iron targets for cyclotron production of 52gMn and 51Mn. For the separation of 52gMn from natCr, a decay-corrected radiochemical yield of 83.7\xa0±\xa08.4% was achieved. For 51Mn from 54Fe, a decay-corrected radiochemical yield of 78\xa0±\xa011% was achieved. This automatable method efficiently isolates both radionuclides from accelerator target material.