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Production of Carrier-Free 132Cs and 129Cs

Virginia H. Wilson, W. N. Bishop, Manny Hillman

Nuclear Technology / Volume 1 / Number 6 / December 1965 / Pages 556-559

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20583

Carrier-free 132Cs and 129Cs were produced by the 129I(α,n)132Cs, 129I(α,4n)129Cs, and 127I(α,2n)129Cs reactions using thallous iodide as a recoverable target. Upper limits for the production yields of these isotopes are 25µC/(µA h) for 132Cs and 2 mC/(µA h) for 129Cs, for 35-MeV alpha particles.