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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.
Markus Meier, George Yadigaroglu, Michele Andreani
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 136 | Number 3 | November 2000 | Pages 363-375
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE00-A2165
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In certain passive, future boiling water reactor concepts, during emergency cooling conditions, mixtures of steam and nitrogen are blown into a pool of water via a downward-facing open pipe; at its end, large gas bubbles form, break up, and rise in the water. We have developed a computer simulation program for the hydrodynamics of the process using an isothermal piecewise linear interface construction-volume of fluid method and carried out an experiment with flow rates up to 50 l/s into a tank of 1 m3 volume. Bubble frequencies and volumes can be predicted fairly well for the case of air injection. The experiments show that most of the condensation takes place before the bubble detaches from the pipe exit. The phenomena depend mainly on the volumetric flow rate of the gas and on a parameter measuring the shrinkage due to condensation. The rates of condensation were estimated to be very high.