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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.
Jon L. Maienschein, Frank Garcia, Raul G. Garza, Ronald L. Kanna, Stephen R. Mayhugh, David T. Taylor
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 383-388
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29775
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Tritium-handling apparatus has been decontaminated as part of the downsizing of the LLNL Tritium Facility. Two stainless-steel gloveboxes that had been used to process lithium deuteridetritide (LiDT) salt were decontaminated using the Portable Cleanup System so that they could be flushed with room air through the facility ventilation system. Further surface decontamination was performed by scrubbing the interior with paper towels and ethyl alcohol or Swish™. The surface contamination, as shown by swipe surveys, was reduced from 7x106 - 2x108 Bq/m2 (4x104 - 106 disintegrations per minute per square cm, or dpm/cm2) to 3x104 - 7x104 Bq/m2 (2x102 - 4x104 dpm/cm2). Details on the decontamination operation are provided. A series of metal (palladium and vanadium) hydride storage beds have been drained of tritium and flushed with deuterium, in order to remove as much tritium as possible. The bed draining and flushing procedure is described, and a calculational method is presented which allows estimation of the tritium remaining in a bed after it has been drained and flushed. Data on specific bed draining and flushing are given.