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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.
Masaaki Mori, Mitsuru Kawamura, Akio Yamamoto
Nuclear Technology | Volume 117 | Number 2 | February 1997 | Pages 171-183
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35323
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Results are presented of a conceptual design study of a transuranium (TRU) fuel assembly consisting of only plutonium and minor actinide (MA) oxides for transmutation of MAs in a pressurized water reactor (PWR). The average plutonium content of the TRU transmutation fuel assembly in this study is 38 wt% Putot, and the average MA content is 62 wt%. The fuel rod arrangement and the plutonium content are optimized to suppress the internal power peaking in the fuel assembly. Core characteristics and TRU inventory change are evaluated for an 870-MW(electric) PWR core loaded heterogeneously with a few TRU transmutation fuel assemblies. The maximum loading of the TRU transmutation fuel is limited to nine assemblies to maintain a negative moderator temperature coefficient at the beginning of cycle, while satisfying a cycle length of 15.2 GWd/tonne U. By loading nine TRU transmutation fuel assemblies, the total MA inventory in the core decreases by —65 kg/cycle, which is approximately equivalent to that produced from three UO2 reactors. The heterogeneous loading of a few fuel assemblies with highly concentrated TRU in a PWR is found to be feasible for the effective transmutation of MAs while maintaining reactor safety.