Medical Isotopes
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Radiopharmaceutical opens Hamilton facility to mass produce targeted cancer therapiesMcMaster Innovation Park is home to a new manufacturing facility that will produce life-saving cancer treatments to be shipped around the world.CanadaMay 2, 2023
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BWXT Peterborough touts ‘tremendous progress’ in medical isotope production at Darlington nuclear stationDarlington nuclear facility aims to be the first commercial operating nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes.HealthSep 24, 2020
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New specialized labs coming for Fedoruk Centre researchers in SaskatoonNew funding towards renovations at the Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences will create labs for working on new drug treatments using medical isotopes.ScienceFeb 4, 2019
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Nuclear research in Saskatchewan gets boost from federal governmentA new innovation wing at the Fedoruk Centre will allow researchers to develop new drugs containing medical isotopes and advance nuclear health research.ScienceDec 19, 2018
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Ontario’s Darlington Nuclear announces plan to produce medical isotopesThe OPG said that returning production to Canada will result in a continuous domestic and North American supply of a "lifesaving medical tool."CanadaJun 20, 2018
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John Root named executive director of Fedoruk CentreFollowing a national search, the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation has named an executive director.CanadaMay 8, 2017
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Nuclear physicist played key role in clinching Iran dealAs negotiators were grasping for a landmark nuclear deal, they hit a roadblock over Iran's once-secret enrichment site at Fordo, a fortified bunker buried deep in a mountainside - potentially impervious to U.S. or Israeli airstrikes.WorldJul 21, 2015
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Major medical breakthrough in SaskatoonThe synchrotron, Canada’s light source, has sent off its first shipment of non-nuclear produced medical isotopes.HealthNov 14, 2014
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BC team announces breakthrough in medical isotope researchResearchers in British Columbia say they're reached a milestone in the development of a new medical isotope, which could help address a national shortage.CanadaJun 10, 2013
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