Real-time stack monitoring at the BaTek medical isotope production facility

Radioxenon emissions from fission-based
radiopharmaceutical production are a major source of
background concentrations affecting the radioxenon
detection systems of the international monitoring system
(IMS). Collection of real-time emissions data from production facilities makes it possible to screen out some medical isotope signatures from the IMS radioxenon data sets. This paper describes an effort to obtain and analyze real-time stack emissions data with the design, construction and installation of a small stack monitoring system developed by a joint CTBTO-IDC, BATAN, and Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory team at the BaTek medical
isotope production facility near Jakarta, Indonesia.