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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.
Shekhar Kumar, S. B. Koganti
Nuclear Technology | Volume 126 | Number 2 | May 1999 | Pages 237-239
Technical Note | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT99-A2971
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Tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) is an excellent industrial solvent for metal extraction in the nuclear chemical industry. It is also being used as a major constituent of hydraulic fluids in the aircraft industry and other industrial applications. Risk assessment studies demand limiting of airborne concentration of TBP during normal as well as accidental exposure to humans, as the toxicity index for TBP is quite high. Published data on TBP vapor pressure has been analyzed, and an empirical equation is reported for the temperature range of 273.15 to 562.15 K. The performance of the reported equation is compared with the correlations available in the literature.