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Radium sources yield cancer-fighting Ac-225 in IAEA program
The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that, to date, 14 countries have made 14 transfers of disused radium to be recycled for use in advanced cancer treatments under the agency’s Global Radium-226 Management Initiative. Through this initiative, which was launched in 2021, legacy radium-226 from decades-old medical and industrial sources is used to produce actinium-225 radiopharmaceuticals, which have shown effectiveness in the treatment of patients with breast and prostate cancer and certain other cancers.
Y. Ishii, N. Aiba, M. Ando, N. Asakura, A. Bierwage, P. Cara, H. Dzitko, Y. Edao, D. Gex, K. Hasegawa, T. Hayashi, R. Hiwatari, T. Hoshino, Y. Ikeda, S. Ishida, K. Isobe, Y. Iwai, A. Jokinen, A. Kasugai, Y. Kawamura, J. H. Kim, K. Kondo, S. Kwon, S. C. Lorenzo, K. Masuda, A. Matsuyama, N. Miyato, K. Morishita, M. Nakajima, N. Nakajima, M. Nakamichi, T. Nozawa, K. Ochiai, M. Ohta, M. Oyaidzu, T. Ozeki, K. Sakamoto, Y. Sakamoto, S. Sato, H. Seto, T. Shiroto, Y. Someya, M. Sugimoto, H. Tanigawa, S. Tokunaga, H. Utoh, W. Wang, Y. Watanabe, M. Yagi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | November 2021 | Pages 532-548
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1925030
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The current status and the progress of research and development (R&D) activities for a Fusion DEMO reactor in the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) Rokkasho Fusion Institute is reported. In order to advance the Japanese DEMO activity, not only Japanese domestic activity but also international collaborations of Broader Approach activity and ITER-related activities are conducted in the QST Rokkasho Fusion Institute. Activities for DEMO design and relevant R&D; design of a fusion neutron source and development of an accelerator, ITER Test Blanket System; tritium handling technology; and information technology infrastructures, including a supercomputer system and a remote experimentation system, are carried out for a Fusion DEMO reactor.