AMIC teams with DOE on isotopes

Jan 25, 2009

Medical isotope producer Advanced Medical Isotope (AMIC) of Kennewick, WA, will partner with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to further develop technology for the production of medical isotopes.

AMIC will collaborate with the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on the two-year project to advance compact-systems technology developed by the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology in Ukraine.

AMIC and the Global Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program, under the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, each will contribute $760,000 to the initiative.

The compact system is based on the alternative method for producing medical isotopes (AMPMI) technology being developed at the Kharkov Institute. The AMPMI method is designed to create an intense neutron beam at a high fluence rate under controlled conditions to produce neutron-rich medical isotopes.

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