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September 8–11, 2025
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.
B. Zhu, Y. P. Li, X. P. Zhu, M. K. Lei (Dalian Univ of Technology)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 45-50
An analysis of elastohydrodynamic lubrication with boundary slippage is conducted for thrust bearing with polymer pad and Babbitt pad based on limiting shear stress model. The pressure distribution in the lubricating film and the elastic deformation of the pad are obtained through the solution of fluid-solid coupling problem by using parameter quadratic programming technique. The results show that the boundary slippage and elastic deformation of thrust pad has significant influence on the load carrying capacity with shifted distribution of pressure maxima. It is implied that, the performance of thrust bearings with respect to the load carrying capacity could be improved if the thrust pad surface could be controlled with slip and no-slip zones.