Repurposing obsolete radioactive devices as radioisotope sources

To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the radioisotope radium-226 in ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The problem? Radium, produced by the radioactive decay…

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