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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.
Nathan E. White, Robert V. Tompson, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 2 | February 2021 | Pages 137-147
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1793559
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Although aerosols in some postaccident nuclear environments can be nonspherical, chainlike, or agglomerates, there have been limited investigations of the rate processes (such as coagulation, evaporation, condensation, and deposition) involving such particles. In a previous investigation, the understandings of condensation and evaporation on such particles were expanded through use of a one-speed approximation for modeling vapor (or fission product) molecular transport, and the present paper extends that work to energy- and mass-dependent transport of vapor molecules within the context of the linear Boltzmann equation via the Monte Carlo particle transport method for rigid sphere molecules. The results are benchmarked against available numerical results and experimental data for a single sphere, and it is found again that the normalized condensation rate has only a weak dependence on the molecular mass ratio (vapor to background) and that the one-speed approximation is quite good. Results are reported for a range of chainlike and agglomerate aerosols.