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Radium sources yield cancer-fighting Ac-225 in IAEA program
The International Atomic Energy Agency has reported that, to date, 14 countries have made 14 transfers of disused radium to be recycled for use in advanced cancer treatments under the agency’s Global Radium-226 Management Initiative. Through this initiative, which was launched in 2021, legacy radium-226 from decades-old medical and industrial sources is used to produce actinium-225 radiopharmaceuticals, which have shown effectiveness in the treatment of patients with breast and prostate cancer and certain other cancers.
Shefali Bajpai, Tushar Roy, Nirmal Ray, Yogesh Kashyap, Mayank Shukla, Tarun Patel, Amar Sinha
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 181 | Number 3 | November 2015 | Pages 361-367
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE14-137
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The reactivity measurement in a subcritical assembly using the area ratio method is affected by the detector location and needs to be corrected for spatial dependence. One of the approaches to calculate the spatial correction factor is based on steady-state numerical simulation as proposed by Bell and Glasstone. This paper discusses the evaluation of the spatial correction factor for the BRAHMMA (BeO Reflected And HDPe Moderated Multiplying Assembly) subcritical assembly, India. The factors have been used to correct experimentally measured reactivity values from the area ratio method at different locations inside the core.