TU Delft to help cancer patients
Saturday, September 25, 2010 - 07:42
in Physics & Chemistry
TU Delft's nuclear research reactor will be used as a back-up facility for the production of the radioactive isotope molybdenum-99, when supplies run out. Molybdenum-99 is widely used in hospitals in order to locate cancer. The substance is regularly in short supply because there are only five large commercial producers worldwide, and they all produce using older reactors. TU Delft announced earlier this year that its reactor could act as back-up facility when supplies run out. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport has accepted this offer and asked the university to adapt its reactor for the production of this isotope...