Appendix A
Agenda
SYMPOSIUM DAY 1: MONDAY, JULY 17, 2017
International Atomic Energy Agency
Board Room A
M Building
| 9:00 | Opening Session |
| Welcome | |
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Meera Venkatesh, International Atomic Energy Agency (5 min) |
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Christophe Xerri, International Atomic Energy Agency (5 min) |
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| Statement from the U.S. and Russian Academies | |
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Stepan Kalmykov, co-chair, Russian Academy of Sciences (on behalf of the symposium organizing committees) (10 min) |
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| 9:20 | Plenary Session |
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Moderator: Alexander Bychkov, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna |
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| Mo-99 production: Past, present, and future | |
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Hedvig Hricak, co-chair, U.S. National Academies (on behalf of the symposium organizing committees) (10 min) |
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| Russia’s role in global molybdenum-99 supply | |
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Alexey Vakulenko, JSC V/O IZOTOP, Russian Federation (20 min) |
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| Establishing and expanding nuclear medicine programs | |
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Rodolfo Nuñez-Miller, International Atomic Energy Agency (10 min) |
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Wolfgang Weber, Memorial Sloan Kettering, United States (10 min) |
| Plenary session discussion (15 min) | |
| 10:30 | BREAK |
| 10:50 | Molybdenum-99 Supply Reliability: Session 1 |
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Moderator: Jack Coffey, Enigma Biomedical Group |
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-Nuclear Energy Agency’s principles to address molybdneum-99 supply reliability and the organization’s global market demand and production capacity projections |
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Kath Smith, High-Level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes (15 min) |
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The European Commission’s efforts to evaluate the supply of medical radioisotopes |
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Margarida Goulart, European Commission (15 min) |
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Reactor schedule coordination for molybdenum-99 supply reliability |
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Bernard Ponsard, AIPES Reactors & Isotopes Working Group (15 min) |
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Investments in AREVA’s target production facility to improve long-term sustainable security of molybdenum-99 supply |
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Yann Guinard, AREVA, France (15 min) |
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| Session 1 discussion (20 min) | |
| 12:10 | Molybdenum-99 Supply: Session 2 (Part 1) |
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Moderator: Rania Kosti, U.S. National Academies |
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Existing global suppliers: Current production and future plans |
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Roy Brown, Curium (10 min) |
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Michael Druce, ANSTO, Australia (10 min) |
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Gavin Ball, NTP, South Africa (10 min) |
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Jean-Michel Vanderhofstadt, IRE, Belgium (10 min) |
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| 12:50 | LUNCH |
| 14:30 | Molybdenum-99 Supply: Session 2 (Part 2) |
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Moderator: Rania Kosti, U.S. National Academies |
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| New projects for regional or global molybdenum-99 supply | |
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James Harvey, NorthStar, United States (10 min) |
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Katrina Pitas, SHINE, United States (10 min) |
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Carolyn Haass, Northwest Medical Isotopes, LLC, United States (10 min) |
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Carmen Bigles, Coquí Radio Pharmaceuticals, United States (10 min) |
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Matthew Lish, Flibe Energy, United States (10 min) |
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Hermen van der Lugt, PALLAS Reactor, Netherlands (10 min) |
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Oleg Kononov, Karpov Scientific Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Russian Federation (10 min) |
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Ken Buckley, TRIUMF, Canada (10 min) |
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Kennedy Mang’era, Canadian Isotope Innovations Corp. (10 min) |
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Jin Du, China Isotope & Radiation Corporation (10 min) |
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Anupam Mathur, Department of Atomic Energy, India (10 min) |
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Ul-Jae Park, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (10 min) |
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Pablo Cristini, National Atomic Energy Commission, Argentina (10 min) |
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Mostafa Abd Elaal, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (10 min) |
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| Session 2 discussion (30 min) | |
| 17:30 | Late afternoon break and closing remarks |
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(Participants move to MO2 Foyer) |
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| 19:30 | Adjourn symposium day 1 |
SYMPOSIUM DAY 2: TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2017
Board Room A
M Building
| 9:00 | Welcome |
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Stepan Kalmykov, co-chair, Russian Academy of Sciences committee (on behalf of the two Academies) (5 min) |
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| 9:05 | Technical Considerations: Session 3 |
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Moderator: Boris Zhuikov, Russian Academy of Sciences |
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Conversion to low enriched uranium-based molybdenum-99 production |
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Jean-Michel Vanderhofstadt, IRE, Belgium (10 min) |
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Roy Brown, Curium (10 min) |
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Gavin Ball, NTP, South Africa (10 min) |
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Vladimir Risovaniy, Rosatom, Russian Federation (10 min) |
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| Production expansion | |
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Michael Druce, ANSTO, Australia (10 min) |
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Prospects for the use of activation of molybdenum for the production of technetium-99m generators |
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Victor Skuridin, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russian Federation (15 min) |
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| High-density low-enriched uranium targets production | |
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Bertrand Stepnik, AREVA, France (15 min) |
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Kinam Kim, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (15 min) |
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| Session 3 discussion (20 min) | |
| 11:40 | BREAK |
| 12:00 | Regulatory Considerations: Session 4 |
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Moderator: Joao Alberto Osso Junior, International Atomic Energy Agency |
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European Medicines Agency’s regulatory considerations |
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Brendan Cuddy, European Medicines Agency (20 min, pre-recorded) |
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Perspectives from Tc-99m generator manufacturers |
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Ira Goldman, Lantheus Medical Imaging, United States (10 min) |
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Roy Brown, Curium, Netherlands (10 min) |
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Perspectives from a nuclear pharmacy |
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David Pellicciarini, Cardinal Health, United States (15 min) |
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| Session 4 discussion (15 min) | |
| 13:15 | LUNCH |
| 14:30 | Economic Considerations: Session 5 |
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Moderator: Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists |
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| Molybdenum-99 supply economics | |
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Jan Willem Velthuijsen, PwC Europe (20 min) |
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| Low-enriched uranium-based molybdenum-99 production | |
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Gavin Ball, NTP (5 min) |
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Michael Druce, ANSTO (5 min) |
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| Session 5 discussion (25 min) | |
| 15:30 | BREAK |
| 15:50 | Chemical Processing and Waste Management: Session 6 |
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Moderator: Sergey Yudintsev, Russian Academy of Sciences |
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Chemical processing and waste management following neutron activation |
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Evgeniy Nesterov, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russian Federation (10 min) |
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Development of a novel dry chemical uranium molybdenum separation: Research for a future efficient Mo-99 extraction process |
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Riane Stene, FRM-II, Germany (10 min) |
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Waste management in HEU versus LEU-based molybdenum-99 production |
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Jean-Michel Vanderhofstadt, IRE, Belgium (15 min) |
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Synroc Technology for the Management of molybdenum-99 Waste |
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Bruce Begg, ANSTO, Australia (10 min) |
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Recycling processed LEU for reuse as target material |
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Carolyn Haass, Northwest Medical Isotopes, LLC, United States (10 min) |
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| Session 6 discussion (30 min) | |
| 17:20 | Closing remarks |
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Stepan Kalmykov, co-chair, Russian Academy of Sciences |
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| 17:30 | Adjourn symposium |
