Residual radioactivity at the CERN 600MeV synchro-cyclotron

Carbonez, Pierre; Torre, F.P. La; Michaud, Régis; Silari, M.

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2012.08.011

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“…As heavy ion therapy has been put into practice, more people have paid attention to the environmental impact caused by the radiation of heavy ion accelerator induced radioactivity. However, many of these reports were only very recently published [9,10]. HIMM includes an ion source, a low energy beam transport line, an injector cyclotron, a middle energy beam transport line, a synchrotron (main accelerator), a high energy beam transport line, and four treatment rooms (Fig.…”

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Simulation of induced radioactivity for a heavy ion medical machine

Xu¹,

Su²,

Wy³

et al. 2014

Chinese Phys. C

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Abstract：For radiation protection and environmental impact assessment purpose, the radioactivity induced by carbon ion of Heavy Ion Medical Machine (HIMM) was studied. Radionuclides in accelerator component, cooling water and air at target area which are induced from primary beam and secondary particles are simulated by FLUKA Monte Carlo code. It is found that radioactivity in cooling water and air is not very important at the required beam intensity and energy which is needed for treatment, radionuclides in accelerator component may cause some problem for maintenance work, suitable cooling time is needed after the machine are shut down.

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confidence: 99%