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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.
P. Drai, B. Porterie, P. Monier, J. C. Loraud
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 129 | Number 3 | July 1998 | Pages 246-260
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1979
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A mixture model is developed for the simulation of a transient two-phase flow induced by the accidental depressurization of an enclosure containing initially high-pressure liquid. It is based on a three-equation system and a drift-flux model for describing the relative phase motion. The unsteady solution is obtained by means of a fully implicit scheme. An original treatment of the drift-flux term (based on the donor cell concept) in the energy equation is used. The comparison between the numerical results and those given by experiments for two accidental events is quite good. This fast-running approach (in terms of CPU time) allows real-time simulations, which are of primary importance for control system modeling and simulator design.