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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.
Sergey S. Anan'ev, Alexander V. Spitsyn, Boris V. Kuteev, Pavel N. Shirnin, Nikolay T. Kazakovsky, Dmitry I. Cherkez
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 2 | March 2015 | Pages 241-244
Proceedings of TRITIUM 2013 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-T1
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A concept of DT-fusion neutron source (FNS) with the neutron yield higher than 1018 neutrons per second is under designe in Russia. Such a FNS is of interest for many applications: (i) basic and applied research (neutron scattering, etc); (ii) testing the structural materials for fusion reactors; (iii) control of sub-critical nuclear systems and (iv) nuclear waste processing (including transmutation of minor actinides). This paper describes of fuel cycle concept of a compact fusion neutron source based on a small spherical tokamak (FNS-ST) with a MW range of DT fusion power and considers the key physics issues of this device. The major and minor radii are ∼0.5 and ∼0.3m, magnetic field ∼1.5 T, heating power less than 15MW and plasma current 1–2 MA. The system provides the fuel mixture with equal fractions of D and T (D:T = 1:1) for all FNS technology systems.