The Decommissioning of Cyclotron Facilities for the Production of Radionuclides in Nuclear Medicine

The problem of decommissioning nuclear facilities has become more prominent in the last 10–15 years when accelerators have been put out of operation since better cyclotrons are available. A second-hand market for these machines is not obvious and for each machine a solution has to be found. Decommissioning a cyclotron facility involves the decommissioning and dismantling of the cyclotron itself and possibly the dismantling of the concrete vault. In this chapter, the process of decommissioning a cyclotron facility will be explained.