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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.
Jae Jun Jeong, Dae Hyun Hwang, Bub Dong Chung
Nuclear Technology | Volume 156 | Number 3 | December 2006 | Pages 360-368
Technical Note | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3797
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MARS is a best-estimate system analysis code that is based on the RELAP5/MOD3 and COBRA-TF codes. The COBRA-TF code was adapted as a three-dimensional thermal-hydraulic module in MARS. It uses a two-fluid, three-field model for two-phase flows and has a subchannel flow mixing model. The subchannel flow mixing model of the MARS three-dimensional module was assessed by using the ISPRA 16-rod bundle test and the GE 9-rod bundle test data. These tests represent typical pressurized water reactor and boiling water reactor core thermal-hydraulic conditions, respectively. Two interconnected subchannel tests that were performed under atmospheric pressure conditions were also used for the assessment. From the results of the assessments, a simple modification of the subchannel flow mixing model was suggested to take into account the effects of the system pressure on the void drift phenomena.