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IBA and Framatome form Ekalia for At-211 production
On Friday, Framatome and Ion Beam Applications announced the next step in their plan to advance the industrial-scale production of astatine-211 in Europe and the United States. The partners have formed a jointly owned company, Ekalia, through which they will deploy a network of At-211 production sites close to customers. According to IBA, the first production site is planned in Nantes, France, and Ekalia expects to invest €30 million (about $33.6 million) in it.
Bruce Power’s hot cell approved for medical isotope production
Bruce Power’s hot cell for the TCR step of lutetium-177 production, in Tiverton, Ontario. (Photo: Bruce Power) The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has given Bruce Power approval to operate the company’s hot cell facility in Tiverton, Ontario, for medical radioisotope processing. This approval allows the facility to conduct Target Carrier Removal (TCR), a key step in the production of lutetium-177, an isotope used to treat prostate and gastric cancers.
Ontario invests in medical radioisotope production at McMaster
The core of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor. (Photo: McMaster University) With a new investment of C$4.6 million (approximately $3.3 million) from the government of Ontario, Canada, operations of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) at McMaster University are being expanded to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in order to boost the production of medical radioisotopes.
DOE issues RFI for reuse of SRS heavy water
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has issued a request for information for industry input about the best ways to reuse and repurpose as much as 530,000 gallons of heavy water that is currently being stored at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The deadline to submit responses to the RFI is September 21. Detailed information about the RFI, including contact information and instructions for submissions, was published in the Federal Register.
British researchers test concrete method for Sr-90 treatment
Scientists at the University of Manchester examine how crushed concrete interacts with Sr 90. (Photo: University of Manchester) Researchers from the University of Manchester, the U.K. National Nuclear Laboratory, and Clemson University have studied using crushed concrete at legacy nuclear facilities as a long-term sink for strontium-90, a radioactive contaminant found at many such sites. Their research has been published in the American Chemical Society journal ACS ES&T Water.
Two steps forward for U.K. advanced nuclear
This week, two significant announcements have emerged from the United Kingdom’s advanced reactor sector.
DOE, PNNL, and Commerce Dept. collaborate on Ra-226 recovery
PNNL’s Jamin Trevino works with a capsule containing Ra-226. (Photo: Jamin Trevino/PNNL) A collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Office of Isotope R&D and Production and the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has recovered large quantities of radium-226—valued for its use in medical radioisotope production—from radiological waste stored at NIST facilities. Ra-226 is an important element in developing therapies for patients fighting cancer.
Bruce Power, Ontario reach $300M predevelopment agreement on Bruce C
Bruce power plant in Ontario, Canada. (Photo: Bruce Power) The Bruce C nuclear power plant expansion project in Ontario, Canada, moved one step closer to fruition last week with the May 7 announcement that Bruce Power and the provincial government of Ontario had entered into a cost-sharing and recovery agreement that could be worth C$300 million ($219.4 million).
Nuclear Newswire -- ANS
In your career as a professional in the nuclear community, chances are you will, at some point, be asked (or volunteer) to talk to at least one layperson about the technology you know and love. You might even be asked to present to a whole group of nonnuclear folks, perhaps as a pitch to some company tangential to your company’s business. So, without further ado, let me give you some pointers on the best way to approach this important and surprisingly complicated task.
Is waste really waste?
I’ve been reflecting on the recent American Nuclear Society Winter Conference and Expo, where I enjoyed the discussion on recycling used nuclear fuel to recover valuable minerals or products for future applications. I have spent more than 30 years focusing on dissolving and separating nuclear material, so it was refreshing to hear the case for new applications being made. However, I feel that these discussions could go further still.
BWXT to acquire Kinectrics in “complementary” $525M deal
Clean Core Thorium Energy announced that BWX Technologies–owned Kinectrics will conduct an independent technical review of its ANEEL (Advanced Nuclear Energy for Enriched Life) fuel... With a new investment of C$4.6 million (approximately $3.3 million) from the government of Ontario, Canada, operations of the McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) at McMaster University are being...
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