Saturday 28 January 2012

Medical isotopes

Do you wounder what happened to medical isotopes crisis and how different countries trying to eliminate their dependency on the aging NRU reactor? here are a few recent announcements: non-reactor based methods in Canada in Alberta and Quebec (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/radioactive-medicine-without-the-nuclear-headache/article2309830/page1/), and in Janesville, Wisconsin (http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=31478%3Ashine-to-build-new-us-plant-for-moly-99-production), and the recently announced new research reactor in Netherlands (http://www.nrg.eu/nuclear-services/news/item/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=74&cHash=eef9580cf7388ea7da7886d56e1e975c)... among all of these, it will be only the new research reactor in the Netherlands that allows not only the production of medical isotopes but also production of other types of isotopes required for science and technology as well as other nuclear research including neutron scattering...

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