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Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium

By National Research Council , Committee on Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium

Book information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780309130394, 0309130395
ASIN
1
LCC
RM849 .N38 2009
Open Library ID
OL24385123M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15380820 bytes)
Pages
220\220
Topic
Physics
Library
Kingdwarf
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20

Description

This book is the product of a congressionally mandated study to examine the feasibility of eliminating the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU2) in reactor fuel, reactor targets, and medical isotope production facilities. The book focuses primarily on the use of HEU for the production of the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), whose decay product, technetium-99m3 (Tc-99m), is used in the majority of medical diagnostic imaging procedures in the United States, and secondarily on the use of HEU for research and test reactor fuel. The supply of Mo-99 in the U.S. is likely to be unreliable until newer production sources come online. The reliability of the current supply system is an important medical isotope concern; this book concludes that achieving a cost difference of less than 10 percent in facilities that will need to convert from HEU- to LEU-based Mo-99 production is much less important than is reliability of supply.

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