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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.
Ely M. Gelbard, Richard Lell
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 1977 | Pages 9-23
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A26999
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A Monte Carlo method has been developed for the computation of the eigenvalue, as a function of buckling, in an infinite lattice. This method has been used to test the accuracy of earlier, approximate, void-worth computations, computations that enter into the analysis of hypothetical accidents in which voids collapse. Test results indicate that reactivity effects due to the collapse of bubbles in a molten pool can be computed, with reasonable accuracy, by the Behrens method, used earlier by Goldsmith. On the other hand, the Webb estimates of eigenvalue changes, caused by the expansion of fuel pins into the voids of a previously voided lattice, appear to be somewhat too high.