Computational simulation of ^natUO₂, ²³²ThO₂ and U₃O₈-Al pills to estimate (p,fission) ⁹⁹Mo yield in the modeled targets irradiated by CYCLONE30 accelerator

⁹⁹Mo is important for both therapy and imaging purposes. Accelerator and reactor-based procedures are applied to produce it. Newly proton-fission method has been taken in attention by some research centers. In the present work, computationally investigation of the ⁹⁹Mo yield in different fissionable targets irradiated by proton was aimed. The results showed UO₂ pill target could be efficiently used to produce 11.12Ci/g-U saturation yield of ⁹⁹Mo using 25MeV proton irradiation of the optimized-dimension target with 70µA current.