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Chemistry World
June 3, 2011
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US demands inquiry into isotope management US lawmakers have launched an investigation into the Department of Energy's management of critical isotopes, following revelations that a serious shortage of helium-3 was exacerbated by communication failures.   |
Chemistry World
October 25, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
Critical isotope threat to two-thirds of US nuclear reactors The congressional Government Accountability Office is warning that the US government has failed to adequately address the threat to the supply of a critical isotope required for more than half of the country's nuclear power plants. |
Chemistry World
November 25, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Medical isotope shortage concerns in US Efforts to address a shortage of medical isotopes are gaining momentum in the US amid warnings from a key government advisory panel and congressional action. |
Chemistry World
October 14, 2008
Manisha Lalloo |
Radiopharmaceutical shortage raises long-term supply questions A temporary European shortage of radionuclides, caused by the closure of several nuclear reactors, has highlighted potential long-term problems with the supply of radioactive isotopes for medical imaging. |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2010
Rebecca Renner |
Key helium isotope supply crisis A severe and growing global shortage of helium-3 is threatening scientific research and nuclear security, members of the US Congress heard on 22 April. |
Chemistry World
December 20, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
South Africa sends medical isotopes to US The first batch of imported molybdenum-99 produced with low enriched uranium and approved for patient use in the US arrived earlier this month. However, there is concern that the achievement is primarily political and does not address the US supply shortage. |
Chemistry World
February 22, 2012
Patrick Walter |
Cyclotron remedy for imaging isotope shortages The new technology will result in the decentralization of the production of technetium-99m, with hospitals making the isotope on demand using tabletop cyclotrons. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2010
Sally Adee |
Physics Projects Deflate for Lack of Helium-3 U.S. radiation detectors suck up the existing supply |
Chemistry World
November 21, 2013
Mark Peplow |
A century of isotopes Glasgow will celebrate 'isotope day' on 4 December, 100 years after Frederick Soddy coined the word 'isotope' in Nature. |
Chemistry World
March 17, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Maths mistake sidelined FutureGen project Congress' non-partisan Government Accountability Office has just released a report blaming a mathematical error for FutureGen's cancellation, and now the new DOE director is considering reviving the program.. |
Chemistry World
January 12, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Shortages spur race for helium-3 alternatives The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, based in Tokai, needs 100,000 liters of helium-3 to run properly, but has secured only 85,000 liters. |
Chemistry World
May 11, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
New radioisotope bodes well for cancer treatment The isotope, terbium-161, emits a number of low-energy electrons upon decay, which should make it useful for treating small tumors. |
Chemistry World
March 24, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
Flights from Japan trip US airport radiation detectors Low levels of radiation have been detected on planes arriving at US airports from Japan, but experts say that overly sensitive detectors are culpable and the public should not be concerned. |
Popular Mechanics
December 29, 2008
Jeremy Jacquot |
3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
Security of US Nuclear Research Facilities in Doubt Nuclear facilities at US universities and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come under fire from a US congressional watchdog for lax security and breaches of safety rules. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Miyoko Ohtake |
Chemist Spins His Cyclotron to Create Impossibly Heavy Metals New research allows mutations of metal elements to include more atoms. |
Inc.
December 2007
Stephanie Clifford |
Crusader of the Year Dom Meffe Jr. joined Triad Isotopes as CEO in late 2006. The company makes nuclear pharmaceuticals, radioactive materials that help with diagnoses and treatments. |
Chemistry World
May 27, 2015
Rhian Jones |
Isotope geochemistry Isotope geochemistry by William White is a comprehensive single volume that encompasses almost every imaginable aspect of both radiogenic and stable isotope geochemistry in remarkable detail. |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2010
Anna Lewcock |
New high tech nuclear lab for EU A new state-of-the-art facility in Germany will significantly boost Europe's ability to identify and characterise minute traces of nuclear material as part of ongoing safeguarding and non-proliferation activities. |
National Defense
January 2009
Magnuson & Rusling |
Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports. |
Chemistry World
May 24, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Coin isotopes unravel ancient inflation riddle Bringing together isotopic and trace element studies is very clearly a way forward for the investigation of ancient and historic coinages and the economies that they served. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Drip Line Slips Away Researchers have squeezed 29 neutrons into an atom of aluminum, bringing into doubt current theories which predicted that it would be too unstable to exist. |
Information Today
July 9, 2007 |
OSTI Partners with Internet Archive The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) recently partnered with the Internet Archive to ensure uninterrupted access to more than 1 million online research papers from the E-print Network. |
Chemistry World
May 11, 2012
Simon Perks |
Gas separation with graphene nanopores Scientists in New Zealand, the US and Germany have developed a way of using tiny pores in a graphene sheet to separate different isotopes of helium. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Mark Wolverton |
Efficient Centrifuge Enriches Nuclear Power Future: How It Works A look at how nuclear power may be the most prospective solution to the energy crisis. |
