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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.
Takeo Nishigori
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 108 | Number 4 | August 1991 | Pages 347-354
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE91-A23834
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The effect of a reactivity insertion in a point reactor is formulated as a linear feedback process, and a simple exponential mode representation is proposed as an analytical solution that is valid at small times. The solution contains a fast transient mode as well as slow ones, and it resolves the stiffness problem in a very simple way. With a ramp reactivity insertion as an example, it is shown that this analytical solution is valid for a time interval that is much longer than the time-step size used in the conventional numerical integration, and it is thus useful in reducing computing time.