[ RadSafe ] Nuclear News - Greenpeace complains to EU over Slovaknuclear plans

[Dukelow, James S Jr]

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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 1:48 PM
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Subject: [ RadSafe ] Nuclear News - Greenpeace complains to EU over
Slovaknuclear plans

Index:

Greenpeace complains to EU over Slovak nuclear plans Cat naps at U.S.
nuclear plant may catch hefty fine E. Idaho nuclear facility working on
shuttle reactor device Nuclear Protesters Descend On Offutt Hitachi
Finds Nuclear Software Fault; Undetected for 28 Years Tri-State
Generation: Nuclear plant in Holly talk is 'premature'
Japan, France agree to cooperate on climate change, nuclear energy Will
the U.S. recycle nuclear materials for fuel?
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E. Idaho nuclear facility working on shuttle reactor device

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Researchers in eastern Idaho are building a
device to shuttle radioactive isotopes in and out of a nuclear reactor
in eastern Idaho to help produce medical devices to fight cancer.

The shuttle irradiation system will allow materials used to produce
medical and industrial isotopes to be moved in and out of the Advanced
Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory without having to shut
down the reactor.

IsoRay Medical, a Richland, Wash.-based nuclear medical company, wants
to manufacture cesium-131 at the reactor.

The isotope is used to treat prostate, lung and pancreatic cancer.

Officials say without the shuttle the reactor would have to be shut down
to move the isotopes in and out, making the process more expensive.
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The Fast Flux Test Facility, at the Hanford Site, designed in the 60s,
built in the 70s, operated in the 80s, and shutdown now for 15-20 years,
had a pneumatic "rabbit" system for -- gasp -- moving irradiation
targets in and out of the core.  It is good of the INEL public relations
people to keep us informed of this ground-breaking news.

Best regards.

Jim Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA
Jim.dukelow at pnl.gov

These comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my
management or by the U.S. Department of Energy.