Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium

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Publication Year:2009

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Committee on Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium, National Research Council
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Front Matter	i-xviii
Summary	1-6	(skim)
1 Background and Study Task	7-15	(skim)
2 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Production and Use	16-30	(skim)
3 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Supply	31-54	(skim)
4 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Supply Reliability	55-65	(skim)
5 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Demand	66-79	(skim)
6 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Production Costs	80-89	(skim)
7 Conversion to LEU-Based Production of Molybdenum-99: Technical Considerations	90-100	(skim)
8 Conversion to LEU-Based Production of Molybdenum-99: Regulatory Considerations	101-107	(skim)
9 Conversion to LEU-Based Production of Molybdenum-99: General Approaches and Timing	108-113	(skim)
10 Conversion to LEU-Based Production of Molybdenum-99: Prospects and Feasibility	114-141	(skim)
11 Progress in Eliminating HEU Use	142-162	(skim)
References	163-168	(skim)
Appendix A: Section 630 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005	169-172	(skim)
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	173-180	(skim)
Appendix C: Presentations and Visits	181-183	(skim)
Appendix D: Alternative Molybdenum-99 Production Processes	184-189	(skim)
Appendix E: Correspondence with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited	190-193	(skim)
Appendix F: Present Value Calculation	194-195	(skim)
Appendix G: Glossary	196-199	(skim)
Appendix H: Acronyms	200-202	(skim)

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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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