{"id":235961,"date":"2010-01-27T07:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2010-01-27T07:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T12:58:30","slug":"projects-address-shortage-of-isotope-used-in-medical-diagnostics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/235961","title":{"rendered":"Projects address shortage of isotope used in medical diagnostics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/26\/science\/26nuke.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/01\/26\/us\/26nuke_CA0_337-395\/articleInline.jpg\" width=\"258\" align=\"right\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/01\/26\/13\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/contributor\/doe\">Department of Energy<\/a> has funded two projects aimed at producing a reliable supply of the isotope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Radioisotopes_in_medicine\">Molybdenum-99<\/a>, a key component of radiology testing that has been in short supply for almost a year.<\/p>\n<p>Normally used in about 40,000 procedures per day, the isotope became scarce last May when its main producer, a reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, was forced out of commission by a leak.<\/p>\n<p>General Electric Co. announced yesterday it has received $2.25 million from DOE to develop a new production method for the isotope. The company intends to place a similar material called Molybdenum-98 into a nuclear power reactor, barraging the material with neutrons and causing some of it to become Molybdenum-99.<\/p>\n<p>Another company, Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Group Inc., has received $9 million toward the development of a new reactor. By using low-enrichment uranium, the reactor would mitigate the need to send weapons-grade uranium overseas.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.) have sponsored a bill banning the production of medical isotopes from bomb-grade uranium. The bill passed the House and has not yet faced a vote in the Senate (Matthew Wald, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/26\/science\/26nuke.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" ><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, Jan. 25). <strong>&#8211; GN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3084&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3084\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: The Department of Energy has funded two projects aimed at producing a reliable supply of the isotope Molybdenum-99, a key component of radiology testing that has been in short supply for almost a year. Normally used in about 40,000 procedures per day, the isotope became scarce last May when its main producer, a reactor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}