NUKLEONIKA 2006, 51(Suppl. 2):s3-s5
Bogdan Wąs, Ryszard Misiak, Mirosław Bartyzel, Barbara Petelenz
The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences,
152 Radzikowskiego Str., 31-342 Kraków, Poland
The artificially produced isotopes of polonium are valuable tracers for radiochemical procedures for
the determination of natural 210Po. In this work, the isotopes of polonium (206Po
to 208Po) were produced by activation of metallic bismuth targets with 40 MeV protons.
The thick target yield of 206Po was 16 MBq/mAh.
Polonium was separated from bismuth by a thermochromatographic method under reduced pressure
in static conditions. The bismuth target can be considered as the multiple-use material.