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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
T. R. Allen, K. Sridharan, L. Tan, W. E. Windes, J. I. Cole, D. C. Crawford, Gary S. Was
Nuclear Technology | Volume 162 | Number 3 | June 2008 | Pages 342-357
Technical Paper | Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3961
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The U.S. Department of Energy is sponsoring the Generation IV Initiative in the United States for the purposes of developing future-generation nuclear energy systems. Six systems have been selected for Generation IV consideration: gas-cooled fast reactor, lead-cooled fast reactor, molten salt-cooled reactor, sodium-cooled fast reactor, supercritical water-cooled reactor, and very high temperature reactor. Critical to the development of Generation IV concepts is successful development and deployment of materials that operate successfully in the aggressive operating environments envisioned in the Generation IV concepts. This paper summarizes the Generation IV operating environments and describes materials challenges and potential solutions, including crosscutting solutions applicable to multiple Generation IV concepts.