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July 23, 2019 – The US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded cooperative agreements for the production of molybdenum-99 to three US companies. The announcement came as one of the companies – Shine Medical Technologies – submitted an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to produce medical isotopes at its […]

JERUSALEM, June 5, 2019 — Israeli researchers have developed a new efficient and inexpensive method of producing radioactive isotopes for nuclear medicine and imaging technologies such as CT and PET CT scans. The development was reported by the southern Ben-Gurion University on Wednesday. Isotopes are types of the same chemical element, which differ in their […]

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — BWX Technologies, Inc. announced Tuesday, Feb. 25 that it has successfully labeled technetium-99m (Tc-99m) derived from its proprietary molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) production process and its proprietary Tc-99m generators with nine of the most widely used cold kits in the North American market. As the company announced in 2018, BWXT’s proprietary technology features […]

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190329005071/en/NorthStar-Medical-Radioisotopes-LLC-Signs-Contract-IBA

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190423005163/en/NorthStar-Medical-Closes-100-Million-Financing-Oberland

https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/press-releases-pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/bwxt-completes-acquisition-of-sotera-healths-nordion-medical-isotope-business

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180507005388/en/BWXT-Announces-Breakthrough-Medical-Isotope-Manufacturing-Technology

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Council-formed-to-support-Canadian-isotope-production-1004188.html

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/sotera-health-llc-announces-intent-to-sell-nordions-medical-isotopes-segment-to-bwxt-679966863.html