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Radium sources yield cancer-fighting Ac-225 in IAEA program
The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that, to date, 14 countries have made 14 transfers of disused radium to be recycled for use in advanced cancer treatments under the agency’s Global Radium-226 Management Initiative. Through this initiative, which was launched in 2021, legacy radium-226 from decades-old medical and industrial sources is used to produce actinium-225 radiopharmaceuticals, which have shown effectiveness in the treatment of patients with breast and prostate cancer and certain other cancers.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Monday, November 16, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EST|2
Session Chair:
Xin Xiao (SRNL)
Staff Producer:
Janice Lindegard (American Nuclear Society)
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Canadian Tritium Capabilities for the Fusion Community
Donald Ryland (CNL), Sam Suppiah, Todd Whitehorne, Hugh Boniface
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Conceptual design for a blanket tritium extraction test stand
Masashi Shimada, Robert J Pawelko, Thomas F Fuerst, Paul W Humrickhouse, Chase N Taylor (INL)
Effects of Neutron Irradiation on Hydrogen Isotope Removal from Tungsten
Yuji Hatano (University of Toyama, Japan), Youji Someya, Alexander Spitsyn, Takeshi Toyama, Tatsuya Kuwabara, Vladimir Kh. Alimov
Issues in Formation of Cryogenic Pellets for Fusion Applications
T. E. Gebhart, S. J. Meitner, L. R. Baylor (ONRL)
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