* Shuttered reactor in Canada a big U.S. supplier * Companies scrambling to make up for shortfall * Many medical diagnostics tests "imperiled" By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, May 21 (Reuters) - Makers ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The shutdown of a nuclear reactor in Canada has caused a shortage of a radioactive isotope used to detect cancers and heart disease, forcing doctors into costlier procedures that ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of nuclear medicine, the integration of diagnostics and therapeutics - known as theranostics - represents a groundbreaking shift in how we approach the treatment of ...

After nearly a decade of looming shortages, supplies of critical medical isotopes have stayed stable, but vulnerabilities remain, explained experts during a side event at the IAEA’s 61st General ...

(Adds details, background, byline) By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Covidien <COV.N>, a supplier of medical isotopes used in scores of diagnostic tests, said on Tuesday it had cut a ...

Collaboration enables Fusion to produce high purity actinium-225 at Company's GMP manufacturing facility Agreement furthers BWXT Medical's position as a global leader in medical isotope supply Under ...

In a concerted effort to address the global shortage of medical isotopes used in cancer treatment, Energy Fuels Inc. UUUU recently acquired RadTran LLC. Energy Fuels and RadTran have been ...

Multi-year supply agreement for radium-226 processing and purification Collaboration will work to provide Ac-225 for clinical trials and commercial supply OTTAWA, Ontario & BELOIT, Wis.--(BUSINESS ...

Reducing the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU) can lower the likelihood of adversaries obtaining a nuclear material that can be used in an improvised nuclear explosive. With this objective in mind, ...

ASP Isotopes was up sharply on Thursday after the company successfully enriched Ytterbium-176 (via its “quantum laser enrichment” process) months ahead of schedule. The isotope and high-assay ...

Molybdenum-99 remains a cornerstone of modern nuclear medicine as the parent radionuclide for technetium-99m, the workhorse in diagnostic imaging. Traditionally produced through the fission of uranium ...