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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.
Charles O. Slater, Hamilton T. Hunter
Nuclear Technology | Volume 129 | Number 2 | February 2000 | Pages 201-217
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT00-A3057
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Newly produced multigroup cross-section libraries require detailed testing to ensure that they are suitable for the applications intended. This requires that the libraries be tested against approved experimental benchmarks and/or well-posed calculational benchmarks. Following this tradition, the recently produced fine-group VITAMIN-B6 library and its derivative BUGLE-96 broad-group library have been tested against calculational and experimental benchmarks that are sensitive to neutrons with energies in the moderate-energy range (10.0 to 20.0 MeV). Iron is prominent in each benchmark as it is in many shielding configurations, and iron cross-section data have posed significant problems in many shielding designs. These benchmarks provide stringent tests for the iron cross sections. Calculated results obtained using the new libraries were compared to measured results or results from other calculations. In some cases, results were in good agreement. In other cases, there were significant discrepancies between results due to deficient measurements in a few comparisons and to method or data deficiencies in other comparisons. It is concluded that there is still need for further measurements and evaluations of the iron cross-section data in the energy region below 6.0 MeV. While fluxes in the moderate-energy range and the associated downscatter sources may be calculated adequately, the inadequate low-energy cross sections can lead to rather large discrepancies in integral quantities such as dose or heating.