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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
D. Rochman, A. J. Koning
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 170 | Number 3 | March 2012 | Pages 265-279
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE11-37
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This paper presents new evaluations for the two natural isotopes of copper from thermal neutron energy up to 200 MeV, including covariances. The evaluation and adjustment method consists of applying a Monte Carlo method to select the model parameters to obtain better agreement with differential data, criticality safety, and fusion benchmarks. In the resonance range, the latest resonance parameters and uncertainties are adopted. In the fast neutron range, the TALYS reaction code is used to calculate all nuclear data quantities and covariances. The proposed evaluations present important improvements for fusion benchmarks compared to the current libraries. These new evaluations of 63Cu and 65Cu are proposed for the JEFF-3.2 European nuclear data library. As a spinoff, correlations between cross sections and benchmarks can be obtained.