NRG And Curium Sign Contract For Production of Mo-99 NRG (ENS Corporate Member) and Curium have signed a multi-year contract for the production of molybdenum-99, the starting material for technetium-99m (Tc-99m). Tc-99m is the most used isotope in nuclear medicine for diagnosing life-threatening diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, lung and brain disorders and cancer. With…
Dutch Cabinet Supports Construction Of PALLAS Research Reactor The Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Ernst Kuipers recently announced, that money has been set aside for the construction of the PALLAS reactor in Petten, North Holland, in the coming years. The ministry is reserving 30 million euros for the project this year and 129…
Preparatory Works For The PALLAS Reactor Have Started Preparatory works to enable the realization of the construction of the PALLAS reactor have started. Work is currently underway to make the original access road to the Energy & Health Campus from the 1960s accessible. During the construction of the steel sheet pile structure around the work…
High Flux Reactor In Petten Started Up In Advance The High Flux Reactor (HFR) in Petten, operated by NRG (ENS Corporate Member) started up a day early after maintenance to increase the availability of medical isotopes. The HFR has about 260 production days per year and has regular short maintenance shutdowns, and twice a year…
NCBJ And JAEA To Boost Research And Development In HTGRs On November 22, in Tokyo, the President of the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Mr. Koguchi Masanori and the Director of the Polish National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Prof. Krzysztof Kurek signed an Implementing Arrangement regarding the institution’s cooperation in research and development in…
NRG And Tractebel To Support New NPPs In The Netherlands On Friday, 17th March, NRG|PALLAS and Tractebel (both ENS Corporate Members) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate to support the new-build of nuclear power plants in the Netherlands. Bertholt Leeftink, CEO NRG|PALLAS, said Cooperation is a key element in realising such an ambitious project.…
NRG And TerThera Cooperate To Secure Terbium-161 Supply Last week, NRG (ENS Corporate Member) and TerThera signed an agreement for irradiation services in the High Flux Reactor in Petten to produce Terbium-161. The non-carrier-added (NCA) Terbium-161 is produced by neutron irradiation of highly enriched Gadolinium-160 targets in the Dutch research reactor. Terbium-161 is a promising novel…
NRG|PALLAS Started The First Irradiation Cycle Of 2024 For Lutetium Last week, NRG|PALLAS (ENS Corporate Member) announced the launch of the first cycle of irradiation of the year focusing on lutetium for medical applications. The Dutch company, operating the High Flux Reactor in Petten (The Netherlands), said the cycle started on 19 January, with the…
NRG|PALLAS and Curium Expand Cooperation in Lu-177 Production NRGIPALLAS (ENS Corporate Member) and Curium have signed a long-term agreement to expand the current cooperation to include the production of lutetium-177 (Lu-177). This agreement will enable Curium to supply about 70,000 doses of Lu-177 annually, which will help about 14,000 patients per year. Curium and NRG…
IAEA Visited HFR For Follow-Up Continued Safe Operation Mission At the beginning of July, experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited the High Flux Reactor (HFR) – operated by NRG (ENS Corporate Member) – as part of a follow-up mission on ‘Continued Safe Operation’ – CSO. CSO missions are aimed at evaluating the…