Saturday, August 13, 2011

Shortage of radioactive isotopes?

Medical isotopes have an extremely short half life and need to be produced in a special nuclear reactor designed to make them. There are very few of these in the world and the isotopes generally are spent within a few days of production whether they are used or not. If the reactor that produces them brakes then there is no way to get them because they can't be stored as they are depleted so rapidly.

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