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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.
Layton J. Wittenberg
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 886-890
Material; Storage and Processing | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29862
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A computational model is presented in order to assess the cost of tritium breeding in a fusion power reactor. This model compares the differential cost of the Li-bearing breeder blanket with that of a steel shield and adds the “loss of revenue” due to the lower energy multiplication of the breeder blanket compared to the steel shield. The cost of tritium production ranges from $215–$300/g for a simple breeder up to $1420/g for a high temperature breeder.