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Medical Radioisotopes / US Company Produces Mo-99 Without Using High-Enriched Uranium

By David Dalton
13 January 2023

Method is ‘independent of reliance on overseas nuclear reactors’
US Company Produces Mo-99 Without Using High-Enriched Uranium
The NorthStar method uses non-uranium-based technology that is independent of reliance on overseas nuclear reactors. Courtesy NorthStar.
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes used its electron accelerator technology to produce the first batch of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) without using high-enriched uranium at its production facility in the US state of Wisconsin.

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