Transplutonium elements production

In Transplutonium Elements—Production and Recovery Navratil, J., el al. ACS Symposium Series American Chemical Society Washington, DC, 1981. 

Transplutonium elements, production and recovery. (ACS symposium series, ISSN 0097-6156 161)... 

The 17 papers in this volume provide authoritative, in-depth coverage of an important area of nuclear and industrial chemistry. In addition to 12 U.S. authored papers, there are papers from authors in France, Japan, Peoples Republic of China, Sweden, and West Germany. This volume thus includes contributions from most countries in the world that have significant transplutonium element production and recovery programs and facilities. 

The National Transplutonium Element Production Program was established in the late 1950 s to concentrate the "large-scale" production of transplutonium elements at a central location. 

The purpose of this paper is to indicate the capabilities of the HFIR for transplutonium element production and particularly to dwell on the mathematical techniques involved in forecasting the composition of irradiated target materials. Also described are some of the uses to which such forecasts are put. Early work along this line was published by Burch, Arnold, and Chetham-Strode (6), providing the basis for design of HFIR and TRU. 

Figure 2. General organization of transplutonium elements production...

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