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Moly crisis to continue as AECL pushes reactor restart to 2010

Aug 12, 2009

Nuclear medicine physicians may have to wait a little longer for the shortage of the radioisotope molybdenum-99 to abate. Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) has pushed back the anticipated restart of its Chalk River, Ontario, nuclear reactor to the first quarter of 2010.

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