ELECTROCHEMICAL PLANT, JOINT-STOCK COMPANY

ISOTOPE PRODUCTION

The first «isotope» equipment at the Electrochemical Plant was put into operation on November 9, 1971. The first product was a few dozens of grams of iron isotope 57Fe enriched to 80%. For the first time in the world, gas centrifuge technology was successfully applied to produce non-uranium isotopes.

Today the annual output of isotopes reaches hundreds of kilograms.

The company’s isotope products find various applications: ✽ Nuclear medicine ✽ Biomedical research ✽ Nuclear physics research ✽ Nuclear industry ✽ Space engineering ✽ Aircraft engineering ✽ Radio electronics ✽ Chemistry ✽ Geology ✽ Metallurgy ✽ Spectroscopy ✽ Nondestructive testing ✽ Agriculture ✽ Metrology ✽ Pharmaceuticals ✽ Radiology

The isotopes of ECP were supplied to research universities and national laboratories all over the world, including Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), Cambridge University, University of Nottingham (UK), Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland), Australia’s Nuclear Science

and Technology Organisation, University of Tokyo (Japan), and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany).

Isotopes from Siberia have found application in more than 20 international research programs (search for neutrinoless double β-decay – projects NEMO-3, MAJORANA, AMoRE, GERDA, LEGEND; registration of solar neutrino – project XMASS; research of «dark matter» of the Universe – project WARP; project Kilogram on creation of a new standard for mass, and other projects)

A complete process cycle is implemented: from obtaining a process substance, through isotope separation processes on gas centrifuges to obtaining commercial forms required by consumers from gaseous semi-products. This method of isotope separation allows receiving products with maximum enrichment and high chemical purity, ensures a competitive price, and our production capacity allows making the required isotopes in great amounts, even on an industrial scale.

ECP’s isotope production is advancing towards new technologies that will open international and Russian markets for rare earth element isotopes (their promising areas of application are scientific research, starting isotopes for nuclear medicine, nuclear power industry).

❖ The plant’s expertise in radioisotope production is growing. ECP was the first in the world to develop and implement enrichment of nickel-63 in gas centrifuges. In 2018, a pilot batch of the product was produced with over 69% enrichment. This isotope will be in demand for the development and production of long-life (up to 50 years) power sources.

❖ In 2012-2018, ECP took part in an international project to create a new standard of mass and refine one of the fundamental physical constants: Avogadro number. As part of the project, ECP produced the required amount of silicon-28 (in the form of tetrafluoride) as raw material for polycrystalline silicon, which was used to grow a single silicon-28 crystal. In its turn, the single crystal was used to produce a prototype of a new mass standard to redefine the Avogadro number.

❖ In January 2017, a millionth zinc pellet depleted in zin c - 64 isotope was produced at ECP. The pellets are used in Russia and abroad for nuclear power plants as an additive to the water coolant of the primary circuit. This reduces the radiation dose rate during scheduled repairs and accumulation of radioactive waste in the equipment, improves corrosion resistance, extends the service life of primary circuit pipelines and, ultimately, boosts the reliability of nuclear reactors.

❖ 2018. The enterprise mastered the technology of chromium-50 production in the form of chromium anhydride CrO3 as requested by the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which coordinates the implementation of the project BEST (Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions), a global scientific experiment researching neutrino properties. The company’s staff solved the task brilliantly, ensuring the required chemical purity and concentration of the target isotope at 98%.

Geography of sales: Russia, USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Finland, Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, India, Jordan, Saudi Arabia,

Australia, Uzbekistan and other countries.

ELECTROCHEMICAL PLANT, JOINT-STOCK COMPANY

RF, 663690, Krasnoyarsk Region, Zelenogorsk, Pervaya Promyshlennaya Street, building 1.

http://www.ecp.ruTel. +7 (39169) 3–33–21 Fax +7 (39169) 9–42–43

E-mail: taifun@ecp.ruE-mail: market@ecp.ruWebsite: www.ecp.ru

Electrochemical Plant, Joint-Stock Company (ECP) is an enterprise of the separation and sublimation complex within Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company. The main type of product is low-enriched uranium (235U isotope) used for NPP fuel production. Almost a third of Rosatom’s separation capacity

is concentrated at the plant. The gas centrifuge technology used to enrich uranium also makes it possible to produce isotopes of other elements.

ECP is among the largest producers of stable isotopes using the gas centrifuge method and is one of the world’s top five isotope producers.

✽ The marketing policy of the enterprise allows our partners to obtain isotope products on the most favourable conditions.

✽ ECP’s analytical laboratory complies with GOST ISO/IEC17025–2009 ✽ ECP’s integrated management system is certified for ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, BS OHSAS18001:2007,

ISO 50001:2011 ✽ High quality of ECP’s isotopes is confirmed by consumer laboratories and independent testing centers,

including the laboratory of the Fresenius Institute (Germany), GIRedMet (Moscow), State Research Center for Geological Testing (China), Can Test (Canada) and Evans Analytical Group (USA), Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany).

✽ ECP sells isotope products under direct contracts with customers (for Russian sales) and through a single authorized operator of the Rosatom State Corporation: JSC Isotope (for abroad sales).

PRODUCED STABLE ISOTOPESThe chemical elements are sorted in the table by atomic mass

CHEMICAL ELEMENT CHEMICAL FORM CHEMICAL

FORMULA ISOTOPE NATURAL ABUNDANCE, %

ENRICHMENT LEVEL, %

BORON fluoride BF3

10B 19,65 99,9011B 80,35 99,90

CARBON dioxide, calcium carbonate CO2, CaCO3

12С 98,94 99,9013С 1,06 99,90

SILICON element (powder, crystal), oxide, fluoride, monosilane, trichlorosilane

Si, SiO2, SiF4, SiH4, SiHCl3

28Si 92,255 99,99929Si 4,672 99,3030Si 3,073 99,60

SUPHUR element, sodium sulphate S, Na2SO4

32S 94,865 99,9533S 0,763 99,9034S 4,365 99,9036S 0,016 99,90

ARGON gas Ar

36Ar 0,3336 99,9038Ar 0,0629 99,9040Ar 99,6035 99,99

CHROMIUM oxide CrO350Сr 4,34 > 97,0

IRON metal, oxide Fe, Fe2O3

54Fe 5,845 99,9056Fe 91,754 99,9057Fe 2,119 99,0058Fe 0,282 99,90

NICKEL metal Ni

58Ni 68,0769 99,9060Ni 26,2231 99,5061Ni 1,1399 99,5062Ni 3,6345 99,5064Ni 0,9256 99,90

ZINC metal, oxide (powder, pellets), acetate Zn, ZnO,  Zn(CH3COO)2×2H2O

64Zn 48,17 (depleted)64Zn 48,17 99,9066Zn 27,73 99,0067Zn 4,04 78,0068Zn 18,45 99,0070Zn 0,61 99,50

GERMANIUM metal, oxide, fluoride, monogerman Ge, GeO2, GeF4, GeH4

70Ge 20,52 99,9072Ge 27,45 99,9073Ge 7,76 99,9074Ge 36,52 99,9076Ge 7,75 99,90

SELENIUM metal, oxide Se, SeO2

74Se 0,86 99,9076Se 9,23 99,9077Se 7,63 99,9078Se 23,77 98,9080Se 49,61 99,9082Se 8,73 99,90

KRYPTON gas Kr

78Kr 0,355 99,9080Kr 2,286 99,9082Kr 11,593 99,9083Kr 11,500 99,9084Kr 56,958 99,9086Kr 17,279 99,90

MOLYBDENUM metal, oxide, fluoride Mo, MoO3, MoF6

92Mo 14,649 99,9094Mo 9,187 99,5095Mo 15,873 99,5096Mo 16,673 99,5097Mo 9,582 99,5098Mo 24,292 99,50

100Mo 9,744 99,90

CADMIUM metal, oxide, cadmium sulfate Cd, CdO, CdSO4

106Cd 1,245 99,50108Cd 0,888 99,50110Cd 12,470 99,50111Cd 12,795 97,00112Cd 24,109 98,70113Cd 12,227 93,00114Cd 28,754 99,40116Cd 7,512 99,90

TIN metal Sn

112Sn 0,97 99,90114Sn 0,66 98,00115Sn 0,34 90,00116Sn 14,54 99,50117Sn 7,68 90,00118Sn 24,22 98,50119Sn 8,59 87,00120Sn 32,58 99,00122Sn 4,64 99,00124Sn 5,79 99,90

TELLURIUM metal, oxide, fluoride Te, TeO2, TeF6

120Te 0,09 99,90122Te 2,55 99,90123Te 0,89 99,90124Te 4,74 99,90125Te 7,07 99,90126Te 18,84 99,90128Te 31,74 99,90130Te 34,08 99,90

XENON gas Xe

124Xe 0,095 99,90126Xe 0,089 99,90128Xe 1,910 99,90129Xe 26,401 99,90130Xe 4,071 99,90131Xe 21,232 99,90132Xe 26,909 99,90134Xe 10,436 99,90136Xe 8,857 99,90

TUNGSTEN metal, oxide, fluoride W, WO3, WF6

180W 0,12 99,90182W 26,50 99,80183W 14,31 99,80184W 30,64 99,80186W 28,43 99,90

OSMIUM metal Os

184Os 0,02 99,90186Os 1,59 99,80187Os 1,96 99,60188Os 13,24 99,80189Os 16,15 99,60190Os 26,26 99,30192Os 40,78 99,60

IRIDIUM metal, hexachloride sodium (discs) Ir, Na2IrCl6

191Ir 37,30 99,90193Ir 62,70 99,90

LEAD metal Pb

204Pb 1,4 99,90206Pb 24,1 99,90207Pb 22,1 99,00208Pb 52,4 99,80

Gas centrifuge technology is the most advanced industrial method for isotope separation.The share of the company’s products in the world market of stable isotopes is more than 1/3 of the total contracting

volume.ECP produces 107 stable isotopes of 21 chemical elements.Moreover, ECP has accumulated extensive experience in the production of high-purity substances and radioisotopes of

carbon (С-14), krypton (Kr-85), nickel (Ni-63) with high specific activity.