{"id":11701,"date":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/australia-to-expand-isotope-production\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T09:00:00","slug":"australia-to-expand-isotope-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/australia-to-expand-isotope-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to expand isotope production"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian government is expanding the country\u2019s production of medical radioisotopes and constructing a demonstration waste treatment plant for managing the subsequent radioactive by-products.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Minister for science and research Chris Evans recently announced a A$168\u00a0million ($172\u00a0million) investment plan to construct a nuclear medicine manufacturing plant at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation\u2019s (Ansto\u2019s) Lucas Heights site near Sydney, where the low-enriched uranium Open Pool Australian Lightwater (Opal) reactor is in operation.<\/p>\n

The nuclear medicine manufacturing plant will mainly produce molybdenum-99\u00a0(Mo-99), the source of technetium-99\u00a0(Tc-99), which is used for diagnosis of heart disease, cancers, and kidney and gastrointestinal tract disorders.<\/p>\n

Ansto CEO Adi Paterson commented: \u201cAlready Ansto produces half a million doses of nuclear medicine a year which we distribute to more than 200\u00a0hospitals and medical centres.\u201d He added, \u201cThrough the expansion enabled by this plan, Ansto will go from supplying the medicine one in two Australians need, to significantly contributing to the global nuclear medicine community along with its partners\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is an important day for the 550,000\u00a0people who require a nuclear medicine procedure in Australia each year, as well as the 45\u00a0million people across the globe who will be able to access Australian-produced nuclear medicine,\u201d Evans said. This initiative will help meet 25% of the world\u2019s needs for Mo-99. The plan, Evans noted, would create some 250\u00a0jobs and \u201cdeliver a $1\u00a0billion return to Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n

The collocated waste treatment plant will use Synroc, a suite of technologies developed by Ansto for immobilising various forms of intermediate- and high-level radioactive wastes for disposal. It is a ceramic made from several natural minerals which together incorporate into their crystal structures nearly all of the elements present in high-level radioactive waste. According to Ansto, Synroc can reduce the volume of nuclear by-products by 99% (compared with other methods such as cementation).<\/p>\n

The Synroc-treated waste will be sent from Lucas Heights to the national radioactive waste management facility\u00a0\u2014 planned in Muckaty Station, Northern Territory\u00a0\u2014 once it has been sited, constructed and licensed.<\/p>\n

Ansto said that the Synroc facility \u201cwill deliver a permanent, safe and economical way of treating waste from past, current and future manufacture of nuclear medicines\u201d.<\/p>\n

Planning for the nuclear medicine manufacturing plant and Synroc plant is already underway, with construction set to start in 2014. Full production is expected to start in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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