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Souped-Up Cyclotrons Offer Isotope Remedy
from Nature News
A Canadian-led team says that it has succeeded in proving the feasibility of using particle
accelerators instead of nuclear reactors to produce a badly needed medical isotope. If health
regulators approve the method, it will place supplies of the crucial material on a far more
secure footing.
"We have found a practical, simple solution," François Bénard of the British Columbia Cancer
Agency in Vancouver, said on 20 February at the annual meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver.
"It's using the existing infrastructure in the best possible way," agrees Karlheinz Langanke,
director of the Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, who attended the
AAAS presentation but is not involved with the project.
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