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Chris Wagner: The role of Eden Radioisotopes in the future of nuclear medicine
Chris Wagner has more than 40 years of experience in nuclear medicine, beginning as a clinical practitioner before moving into leadership roles at companies like Mallinckrodt (now Curium) and Nordion. His knowledge of both the clinical and the manufacturing sides of nuclear medicine laid the groundwork for helping to found Eden Radioisotopes, a start-up venture that intends to make diagnostic and therapeutic raw material medical isotopes like molybdenum-99 and lutetium-177.
L. El-Guebaly, R. Kurtz, M. Rieth, H. Kurishita, A. Robinson, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 185-189
Divertor & High Heat Flux Components | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12349
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The development of radiation-resistant materials to sustain the harsh fusion environment represents a challenging task for divertor designers. In recent years, advanced physics simulations of the power leaving the plasma with radiation and charged particles indicate much higher heat fluxes to the divertor than previous estimates. In response, experts in EU, Japan, and US developed several W alloys for advanced He-cooled divertors that can handle heat fluxes in excess of 10 MW/m2. This paper briefly discusses the ongoing effort to develop W alloys suitable for fusion applications, the challenging phenomena impacting the behavior of W under a fusion environment, and the environmental impact of the most promising, state-of-the-art alloys: W-La2O3 and W-1.1TiC.