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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.
Y. Ronen, M. Aboudy, D. Regev
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 138 | Number 3 | July 2001 | Pages 295-304
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE01-A2215
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The best sources of neutrons for neutron capture therapy (NCT) are nuclear reactors. To consider installing nuclear reactors in hospitals, such reactors must be cheap and inherently safe. To meet these requirements, the power of the reactor should be low. To obtain low reactor power and high flux, the critical mass should be small.A preliminary design for a 10-kW homogeneous reactor with a critical mass of 19.22 g 242mAm is presented. The obtained results of this reactor are compared with the NCT requirements. Although the presented design could potentially be a cheap reactor, there is uncertainty regarding the cost of the 242mAm fuel.