Medical isotope production without highly enriched uranium
"This book is the product of a congressionally mandated study to examine the feasibility of eliminating the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU2) in reactor fuel, reactor targets, and medical isotope production facilities. The book focuses primarily on the use of HEU for the production of the m...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
c2009.
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| Online Access: | Freely available online NetLibrary MyiLibrary |
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| Summary: | "This book is the product of a congressionally mandated study to examine the feasibility of eliminating the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU2) in reactor fuel, reactor targets, and medical isotope production facilities. The book focuses primarily on the use of HEU for the production of the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), whose decay product, technetium-99m3 (Tc-99m), is used in the majority of medical diagnostic imaging procedures in the United States, and secondarily on the use of HEU for research and test reactor fuel. The supply of Mo-99 in the U.S. is likely to be unreliable until newer production sources come online. The reliability of the current supply system is an important medical isotope concern; this book concludes that achieving a cost difference of less than 10 percent in facilities that will need to convert from HEU- to LEU-based Mo-99 production is much less important than is reliability of supply." |
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| Item Description: | Title from electronic title page (viewed June 1, 2009). |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic text (xviii, 202 p.) : digital, GIF, PDF, ill. Also issued in print. |
| Format: | Adobe Acrobat required for PDF version. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780309130394 0309130395 9780309130400 (electronic bk.) 0309130409 (electronic bk.) 9786612239243 6612239247 |