Abstract
It is fact that production of secondary fuel isotopes (plutonium) is carried out in fast neutron reactors, and the possibility of production of non-fuel radioactive isotopes for use in medicine and industry is being considered. BN-600 has a high power density in the core. This makes it possible to achieve a high rate of fission of target nuclei, which is especially important in the case of the production of radioisotopes, due to their short half-life. To meet the growing demand for isotopes, it is planned to use irradiation devices in high-power sodium fast reactors. This type of irradiation device assumes a massive production of the necessary isotopes. The paper considers the design of irradiation devices for the production of molybdenum-99 isotope in the BN reactor. The presented design of the irradiation assembly contains a moderator in order to combine the advantages of the high neutron flux inherent in fast reactors and the thermal neutron spectrum inherent in thermal reactors.
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