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Canada clears Darlington to produce Lu-177 and Y-90
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has amended Ontario Power Generation’s power reactor operating license for Darlington nuclear power plant to authorize the production of the medical radioisotopes lutetium-177 and yttrium-90.
M. Zucchetti, A. Ciampichetti
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | August 2009 | Pages 814-818
Safety and Environment | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST56-814
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Ignitor is a nuclear fusion experiment aimed at studying Deuterium-Tritium plasmas. If European proposed waste management strategies were applied, all Ignitor radioactive materials could be recycled or declassified to non-radioactive material. We have applied the Italian waste management regulations to the IGNITOR experiment radioactive materials: none of them should be classified in the High Level Waste category but the vessel, and most materials are classified as LLW (Low Level Waste). The machine has very low radiological risks and environmental impact.
