Resumen de How research reactors help make medical imaging possible

Aleksandra Peeva, Nicole Jawerth

• More than 80% of the medical imaging used each year to diagnose diseases like cancer is made possible by the pharmaceutical drugs produced, for the most part, in research reactors. These radiopharmaceuticals contain the radioisotope technetium-99m (99mTc ), which comes from the radioisotope molybdenum-99 (99Mo) that is primarily produced in research reactors.