Computational simulation of UO, ThO and UO-Al pills to estimate (p,fission) Mo yield in the modeled targets irradiated by CYCLONE30 accelerator.

Mo is important for both therapy and imaging purposes. Accelerator and reactor-based procedures are applied to produce it. Newly proton-fission method has been taken in attention by some research centers. In the present work, computationally investigation of the Mo yield in different fissionable targets irradiated by proton was aimed. The results showed UO pill target could be efficiently used to produce 11.12Ci/g-U saturation yield of Mo using 25MeV proton irradiation of the optimized-dimension target with 70µA current.