{"id":3600,"date":"2019-05-21T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/gip-arronax\/arronax-en-8-questions\/quest-ce-que-arronax\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:14:23","slug":"what-is-arronax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-in-8-questions\/what-is-arronax\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS ARRONAX?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-in-8-questions\/\">Arronax cyclotron in 8 questions<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-history\/\">History<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-missions-of-the-gip-arronax\/\">Missions<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\" width=\"22%\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-members\/\"><strong>Members<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-scientific-council\/\"><strong>Scientific Council<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/recruitment\/job\/\"><strong>Recruitement<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/invitation-to-tender\/gip-arronax-invitations-to-tender\/\">Invitation to tender<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-certifications\/\"><strong>Certifications<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-contact\/\"><strong>Contact us<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" align=\"center\" width=\"75%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/gip-arronax\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2240 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-arronax2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-arronax2.png 389w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-arronax2-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-arronax2-256x66.png 256w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-arronax2-360x93.png 360w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-arronax2-152x39.png 152w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-arronax2-158x41.png 158w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/logo-arronax2-374x96.png 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" align=\"center\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"crayon article-chapo-1 chapo surlignable\">\n<p>Arronax stands for \u201cAccelerator for Research in Radiochemistry and Oncology in Nantes-Atlantique\u201d. Arronax is also the name of the professor captured by Captain Nemo on the Nautilus. Allusion to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea\/\">Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea<\/a><\/strong>, written by Jules Verne, a native of Nantes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crayon article-texte-1 texte surlignable\">\n<p><span class=\"spip_document_50 spip_documents spip_documents_left\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cyclotron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cyclotron.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cyclotron-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cyclotron-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cyclotron-74x74.jpg 74w, https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/cyclotron-61x61.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Arronax consists of a circular magnet in two parts. Between these two parts reigns a magnetic field that rotates the particles, and an alternating electrical field that accelerates their movement on each rotation: the particles describe increasingly large circles. When they reach the outer limits of the magnet, they are ejected and directed in a line to a target, where by nuclear reaction they produce radioactive elements.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"spip_document_49 spip_documents spip_documents_center\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2406\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2406\" class=\"wp-image-2406 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alpha.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"45\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Particle \u03b1 = 2 protons + 2 neutrons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Arronax is a machine with a diameter of roughly four meters in a building of 3,000 m<sup>2<\/sup>. Arronax can accelerate different types of projectiles (proton, deuteron and alpha particle) at energies of up to 70 MeV (70 million electronvolts).<br \/>\nBy way of example, protons of 70 MeV have a speed of close to 1\/3<sup>rd<\/sup> the speed of light in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of Arronax is the design, production and use of radioisotopes for research in nuclear medicine, an area of medical specialization that consists in administering radiopharmaceutical agents to patients for diagnosis (by scintigraphic imagery) or treatment (by vectorized radiotherapy).<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of Arronax is the design, production and use of radioisotopes for research in nuclear medicine, an area of medical specialization that consists in administering radiopharmaceutical agents to patients for diagnosis (by scintigraphic imagery) or treatment (by vectorized radiotherapy).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/radionuclide-production\/equipment\/cyclotron-c70\/\">-&gt;Click for more information on the cyclotron\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-&gt;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/production-of-radionucleides\/\">Click for more information on the radioisotopes produced by Arronax\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arronax cyclotron in 8 questions History Missions Members Scientific Council Recruitement Invitation to tender Certifications Contact us Arronax stands for \u201cAccelerator for Research in Radiochemistry and Oncology in Nantes-Atlantique\u201d. Arronax is also the name of the professor captured by Captain Nemo on the Nautilus. Allusion to\u00a0Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, written by Jules Verne, a native of Nantes. Arronax &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-in-8-questions\/what-is-arronax\/\" class=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":3597,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3600","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WHAT IS ARRONAX? - Arronax Nantes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arronax-nantes.fr\/en\/gip-arronax\/gip-arronax-in-8-questions\/what-is-arronax\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WHAT IS ARRONAX? - Arronax Nantes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Arronax cyclotron in 8 questions History Missions Members Scientific Council Recruitement Invitation to tender Certifications Contact us Arronax stands for \u201cAccelerator for Research in Radiochemistry and Oncology in Nantes-Atlantique\u201d. 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