Radiation Applications

Nuclear Medicine / NRG And Curium Sign Contract For Mo-99 Production

By David Dalton
17 August 2022

Crucial material to be produced at Petten research reactor
 NRG And Curium Sign Contract For Mo-99 Production
Production of crucial medical radioisotopes at the HFR facility in Petten. Courtesy NRG.
NRG and Curium have signed a multi-year contract for the production of molybdenum-99, the starting material for technetium-99m (Tc-99m), the most used radioisotope in nuclear medicine for diagnosing life-threatening diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Want to know more?
Sign up.

Pen Use this content

Tags


Related