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Westinghouse / Company Completes Testing Of ‘Novel Approach’ To Ac-225 Production

By Kamen Kraev
4 July 2023

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Company Completes Testing Of ‘Novel Approach’ To Ac-225 Production
The main reactor pool at the Breazeale research reactor at Penn State University, Pennsylvania. Courtesy PSU.
US-based Westinghouse Electric has successfully tested what it called a “novel approach” to produce actinium-225 (Ac-225) medical radioisotopes in commercial nuclear reactors.

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