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Aug 8, 2008

Radioisotopes: supply and demand

Nuclear medicine is one of the fastest growing segments in the healthcare industry today and the demand for medical isotopes is increasing in tandem. Unfortunately the supply of these isotopes may not always keep up with the demand. Take molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), for example. Mo-99 is the precursor to technetium-99m, a short-lived radioisotope that's used in 80-85% of all diagnostic nuclear-medicine procedures worldwide. Its production, however, conventionally demands the use of a large nuclear reactor.

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