The yield of a radionuclide is an important physical quantity, determining the number of radioactive atoms in the irradiated samples. For low and intermediate energy protons and deuterons, 7 Be forms from lithium and boron in the nuclear reactions 7 Li (p, n), 10 B (p, α), 11 B (p, αn), 6 Li (d, n), 7 Li (d, 2n), 10 B (d, αn), 11 B (d, α2n). For purposes of using a cyclotron in activation analysis, the 7 Be yield obtained by irradiating targets with charged particles accelerated in the U-150 cyclotron at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan was investigated [1][2][3][4][5]. The yield of 7 Be in the reactions Li(d, n) and Be(d, n) was also measured at deuteron energies 25 and 40 MeV [5].Another method for obtaining 7 Be consists in using recoil protons and deuterons which form in a nuclear reactor as a result of (n, p) or (n, d) and elastic or inelastic scattering of fast neutrons interacting with hydrogen nuclei [6].The present article presents experimental results from a study of 7 Be production by irradiating natural lithium and boron by recoil protons and deuterons in a nuclear reactor.The radionuclide yield is given by the expression where A is the activity of the radionuclide at t cool = 0, λ is the decay constant, m is the mass of lithium or boron in the irradiated sample, and t irr is the duration of irradiation. The specific activity of 7 Be referred to unit mass of a chemical element in the irradiated sample was estimated from the relation A = N γ exp (-λt cool /(mt meas ωI γ ),where N γ is the number of measured counts, t meas is the duration of a measurement, η is a geometric detection factor, ω is the attention efficiency, I γ is the intensity of the gamma radiation, and t cool is the cooling time. 7 Be possesses a half-life which is suitable for measurements T 1/2 = 53.61 days and emitted gamma ray energy E γ =