US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Oct. 21 for "Radionuclide production method and radionuclide production system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,266, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Radionuclide production method and radionuclide production system" was invented by Yuuko Kani (Tokyo), Takahiro Tadokoro (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Ueno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radionuclide production method and system makes it possible to separate a target radionuclide generated by irradiation with a radioactive ray, and to reduce the generation of a radioactive waste along with the separation. The radionuclide production method includes irradiating, with a radioactive ray, a target material in which a starting material nuclide is present, to generate a radionu...