Food and agriculture

• Improve nutritional status and health of plants and animals

• Maximize optimal crop production

• Reduce food-borne diseases and increase food preservation

Biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, physics, physiology

• Molecular studies

• Metabolic and biological tracers

Cosmology

• Exploration and understanding of the universe

Earth sciences: geochemistry, geology, geophysics, hydrology, and marine, sciences

• Exploration and preservation of natural resources

• Study of water resources and maintaining a safe and abundant water supply

Ecological and environmental research

• Environmental chemistry and measurements

• Environmental pollution studies: occurrence, cause, and remedy

Health care

• Diagnostic nuclear medicine such as cardiological diagnosis

• PET research and applications

• Radionuclide treatment of disease such as cancer

• Radiopharmaceuticals

• Drug research (uptake, binding, metabolism, clearance)

Industrial manufacturing and research

• Materials sciences

• Radioisotope thickness gauges for steel plate or paper production

• Computer chip production

Nutrition

• Disease prevention and health promotion research (cancer, heart disease, obesity, osteoporosis, etc.)

• Energy metabolism in humans and animals

• Tracer techniques to determine nutrition requirements

Toxicology

• Risk assessment

• Soil and water exposure studies