" Life, the Universe and Everything "

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Radionuclides produced in the V4 beam tube of the ILL reactor serve for a large variety of applications. All these have in common that target nuclides are being transmuted by neutron capture in the very high neutron flux to different, more neutron-rich nuclides that are not easily accessible elsewhere.

Certain of the so produced radionuclides are being employed in nuclear medicine procedures for the treatment of disseminated cancers. Today, clinical applications rely mainly on lutetium-177, while other, novel radionuclides are being studied in preclinical experiments, e.g. supplied in the frame of the EU project PRISMAP.

Neutron-induced transmutation occurs not only in the ILL reactor, but is also responsible for the generation of all chemical elements heavier than iron in astrophysical processes. Key nuclides of the astrophysical s-process can be produced in the V4 beam tube and serve subsequently for cross-section measurements at other neutron facilities such as n_TOF at CERN.
Radionuclides produced in V4 are also employed as nuclear probes to study questions in solid state physics or biology or as samples for atomic spectroscopy.

A review of recent applications of radionuclides produced in V4 will be given.