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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.
H. Y. Khater, M. E. Sawan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 2112-2116
Blanket Shield and Neutronic | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30032
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Activation analysis has been performed for the D-3He fueled reactor ARIES-III. The activity, decay heat and biological hazard potential (BHP) have been calculated for the low activation steel (modified HT-9) first wall and shield as a function of time following the reactor shutdown. The total activity produced in the reactor at shutdown is 1549 MCi. The total activity produced in the reactor organic coolant following 30 full power years of operation without reprocessing is 458 Ci. The modified HT-9 shield qualifies for shallow land burial as Class A low level waste. The biological dose rate after shutdown at the back of the outboard shield is too high to allow hands-on maintenance. Burning all the tritium in the plasma chamber results in increasing the radioactivity generated in ARIES-III by 65% to 85% at different times following the reactor shutdown.