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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.
Reijo Munther, Juhani Vihavainen, Heikki Kalli, Jyrki Kouhia, Vesa Riikonen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 119 | Number 3 | September 1997 | Pages 235-243
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT97-A35400
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The RELAP5 calculation results for a series of gravity-driven emergency core-cooling (ECC) experiments with the parallel channel test loop (PACTEL) facility are provided. The simulated accident was a small-break loss-of-coolant accident with a break in one hot leg of the three loops of the facility. The ECC flow was provided from a core makeup tank (CMT) located at a higher elevation than the main part of the primary system. The CMT was pressurized with pipings from the pressurizer and a cold leg. The tests indicate that rapid condensation in the CMT influences the ECC flow. The experimental results are numerically analyzed using the RELAP5/MOD3.1 code. The calculations show good agreement with the tests except in the modeling of rapid condensation.