  The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility - Demo Oriented
NEutron Source (IFMIF-DONES) is a single-sited novel Research Infrastructure
for testing, validation and qualification of the materials to be used in a
fusion reactor. The main purpose of IFMIF-DONES is related to fusion technology
and neutron irradiation of the materials to be used in the future fusion power
plants. However, there is an important effort to take advantage of the
outstanding characteristics of the facility in terms of neutrons and deuterons.
One of the applications could be radioisotopes production with deuterons and
neutrons. We discuss here the possible production of radioisotopes with
deuterons at DONES. In this work, we have focused on the production of 177Lu
with deuterons. The study has been carried out through the design and
simulation of a device as cooling system for the sample producing the
radioisotope. The results show the viability of using DONES for such
production. In addition, the study suggests that new nuclear energy data above
20 MeV for deuterons is mandatory for an accurate study in this field.
