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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.
Alan K. Burnham, Michael T. Tobin, Andrew T. Anderson, Eric C. Honea, Kenneth M. Skulina, David Milam, Mark Evans, Frank Rainer, Michel Gerassimenko
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 730-735
Divertor Design and Experiments | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963022
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Several low-Z refractory materials are evaluated for use as the NIF first wall in terms of their cost, level of vacuum outgassing, and ability to survive laser light, target emissions and debris, and rigorous decontamination. The best performers contain B, C, or both, with B4C being the best overall. It appears possible at this time that plasma-sprayed B4C can be fabricated with low enough porosity and cost to be preferred over hot-pressed B4C, the conservative choice.