technical reportS series no. 47I This report provides technical guidelines for planning new cyclotron facilities for manufacturing radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals. It covers the most important design and technical aspects including, but not limited to, feasibility studies and strategic planning, facility requirements and design, staffing, radiation protection, good manufacturing practices and quality Technical Reports SeriEs No. 47i management. Cyclotron Produced Radionuclides: Guidelines for Setting Up a Facility Cyclotron Produced Radionuclides: Guidelines for Setting Up a Facility INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY VIENNA ISBN 978–92–0–103109–9 ISSN 0074–1914 09-11391_D471_covI-IV.indd 1 2009-08-19 14:10:36 CYCLOTRON PRODUCED RADIONUCLIDES: GUIDELINES FOR SETTING UP A FACILITY The following States are Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency: AFGHANISTAN GHANA NIGERIA ALBANIA GREECE NORWAY ALGERIA GUATEMALA OMAN ANGOLA HAITI PAKISTAN ARGENTINA HOLY SEE PALAU ARMENIA HONDURAS PANAMA AUSTRALIA HUNGARY PARAGUAY AUSTRIA ICELAND PERU AZERBAIJAN INDIA PHILIPPINES BAHRAIN INDONESIA POLAND BANGLADESH IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL BELARUS IRAQ QATAR BELGIUM IRELAND REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA BELIZE ISRAEL ROMANIA BENIN ITALY RUSSIAN FEDERATION BOLIVIA JAMAICA SAUDI ARABIA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA JAPAN SENEGAL BOTSWANA JORDAN SERBIA BRAZIL KAZAKHSTAN SEYCHELLES BULGARIA KENYA SIERRA LEONE BURKINA FASO KOREA, REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE BURUNDI KUWAIT SLOVAKIA CAMEROON KYRGYZSTAN SLOVENIA CANADA LATVIA SOUTH AFRICA CENTRAL AFRICAN LEBANON SPAIN REPUBLIC LESOTHO SRI LANKA CHAD LIBERIA SUDAN CHILE LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA SWEDEN CHINA LIECHTENSTEIN SWITZERLAND COLOMBIA LITHUANIA SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC CONGO LUXEMBOURG TAJIKISTAN COSTA RICA MADAGASCAR THAILAND CÔTE D’IVOIRE MALAWI THE FORMER YUGOSLAV CROATIA MALAYSIA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA CUBA MALI TUNISIA CYPRUS MALTA TURKEY CZECH REPUBLIC MARSHALL ISLANDS UGANDA DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC MAURITANIA UKRAINE OF THE CONGO MAURITIUS UNITED ARAB EMIRATES DENMARK MEXICO UNITED KINGDOM OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MONACO GREAT BRITAIN AND ECUADOR MONGOLIA NORTHERN IRELAND EGYPT MONTENEGRO UNITED REPUBLIC EL SALVADOR MOROCCO OF TANZANIA ERITREA MOZAMBIQUE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ESTONIA MYANMAR URUGUAY ETHIOPIA NAMIBIA UZBEKISTAN FINLAND NEPAL VENEZUELA FRANCE NETHERLANDS VIETNAM GABON NEW ZEALAND YEMEN GEORGIA NICARAGUA ZAMBIA GERMANY NIGER ZIMBABWE The Agency’s Statute was approved on 23 October 1956 by the Conference on the Statute of the IAEA held at United Nations Headquarters, New York; it entered into force on 29 July 1957. The Headquarters of the Agency are situated in Vienna. Its principal objective is “to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world’’. TECHNICAL REPORTS SERIES No. 471 CYCLOTRON PRODUCED RADIONUCLIDES: GUIDELINES FOR SETTING UP A FACILITY INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY VIENNA, 2009 COPYRIGHT NOTICE All IAEA scientific and technical publications are protected by the terms of the Universal Copyright Convention as adopted in 1952 (Berne) and as revised in 1972 (Paris). The copyright has since been extended by the World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva) to include electronic and virtual intellectual property. Permission to use whole or parts of texts contained in IAEA publications in printed or electronic form must be obtained and is usually subject to royalty agreements. Proposals for non-commercial reproductions and translations are welcomed and considered on a case-by-case basis. 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IAEAL 05–00596 FOREWORD Cyclotrons are currently used for the preparation of a wide variety of radionuclides that find application in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) as well as in positron emission tomography (PET). Consequently, radiopharmaceutical production using cyclotron produced radioisotopes is one of the areas that is in high demand in Member States. The selection of a cyclotron to be purchased depends on the scope of the work to be performed in each facility. For example, the widely used PET radionuclides can be prepared in large quantities in a cyclotron with energy ranging from 9 to 19 MeV, whereas higher energy machines (~30 MeV) are needed for preparation of the commonly used SPECT radionuclides. Hence, judicious planning and execution is needed when establishing a cyclotron based radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical production facility. The scope of the facility must be defined, including identification of the most optimum cyclotron needed and construction of a laboratory which will be able to use the cyclotron to the best advantage. The laboratory design will have to take into account good manufacturing practices (GMP) for radiopharmaceutical production as well as radiation protection practices. This report gives guidelines for the design and implementation of a radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical production facility using cyclotrons. Based on the scope of the work to be performed, five different categories of cyclotron facilities are defined, and essential requirements for each category are discussed. Reference material is included on the layout of the building and the design of the laboratory, as well as some basic principles to follow GMP and radiation protection practices. Administrators interested in establishing new cyclotron facilities, managers who are in the process of setting up new facilities in their countries, radiopharmaceutical scientists, production technologists as well as regulators interested in the field are expected to benefit from this publication. This publication was prepared by a group of consultants with extensive experience in the field. The IAEA thanks them, as well as the reviewers of the draft, for their valuable contributions. D. Schlyer of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, was the Chair of the consultants group and the IAEA is thankful to him for coordinating the preparation of this book and for editing the final manuscript. The IAEA officers responsible for this publication were M.R.A. Pillai and M. Haji-Saeid of the Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences. EDITORIAL NOTE Although great care has been taken to maintain the accuracy of information contained in this publication, neither the IAEA nor its Member States assume any responsibility for consequences which may arise from its use. The use of particular designations of countries or territories does not imply any judgement by the publisher, the IAEA, as to the legal status of such countries or territories, of their authorities and institutions or of the delimitation of their boundaries. The mention of names of specific companies or products (whether or not indicated as registered) does not imply any intention to infringe proprietary rights, nor should it be construed as an endorsement or recommendation on the part of the IAEA. CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION . 1 1.1. Background . 1 1.2. Objective . 1 1.3. Scope . 2 1.4. Structure . 2 2. PROJECT PLANNING . 4 2.1. Introduction . 4 2.2. Task force . 5 2.2.1. Task force composition . 5 2.3. Facility considerations . 6 2.3.1. Definition of facility type . 6 2.4. Cost–benefit analysis . 9 2.4.1. Facility benefits . 9 2.4.2. Facility costs . 9 2.4.3. Source of funds (sustained support) . 12 2.5. Business plan . 12 2.5.1. Business plan . 13 2.5.2. Typical costs . 15 2.5.3. Financial plan . 15 2.6. Decision table and flow chart . 16 References . 20 3. CYCLOTRON FACILITY DESIGN . 21 3.1. Introduction . 21 3.1.1. General planning objectives . 21 3.1.2. General safety planning guidelines . 22 3.1.3. Adequate space and movement of materials . 23 3.2. Facility design and floor plan . 24 3.2.1. Overall considerations . 24 3.2.2. Workflow . 27 3.3. Cyclotron or accelerator vaults and workspaces . 28 3.3.1. Utilities . 29 3.3.2. Vault construction . 32 3.3.3. Control and utility access . 35 3.3.4. Safety . 37 3.4. Equipment room . 41 3.4.1. Noise levels . 41 3.4.2. Floor drains . 41 3.4.3. Trenches . 41 3.4.4. Distance to cyclotron . 42 3.5. Workshop and storage . 42 3.5.1. Simple machining . 42 3.5.2. Storage . 42 3.5.3. Waste disposal . 42 3.5.4. Spare parts and self-service . 43 3.6. Decommissioning . 48 References. 48 4. LABORATORY DESIGN . 50 4.1. Hot laboratories . 50 4.1.1. Utilities . 50 4.1.2. Work surfaces and floors . 51 4.1.3. Hot cell design . 53 4.1.4. Laminar flow hot cells . 56 4.2. Shielding and radiation exposure reduction . 56 4.3. Equipment placement and workflow . 58 4.3.1. Equipment placement . 58 4.3.2. Workflow . 58 4.4. Transport of radioactive material . 62 4.4.1. Security . 63 4.4.2. Emergency equipment . 63 References. 64 5. EQUIPMENT AND PERSONNEL . 65 5.1. Introduction . 65 5.2. Personal protective equipment (PPE) . 65 5.3. Equipment and chemicals . 66 5.4. Clean room and aseptic processing . 68 5.4.1. Air purity . 69 5.4.2. Personnel ingress and egress . ..