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Re: [Phys-l] Isotope shortage. Was: Re: Fwd: NSF NanoTeach Pilot Test - Jan 8 Deadline

Plutonium is not a welcome house guest. But it takes Plutonium 238
to power a space probe at the outer planets where solar won't cut it. And the American public stockpile and the Russian one apparently,
are running out. NASA is bereft.

Brian W

Bernard Cleyet wrote:
IIRC, this is prompted by the coming shut down of a research reactor that supplies a large portion of the medical isotopes.
/snip/
On 2009, Sep 27, , at 14:30, Jack Uretsky wrote:

Don Geesaman, head of our physics division, spoke at a colloquium
on Friday on the subject of rare isotopes. It seems that the coming
decades are going to show an increasing demand for rare isotopes (produced with accelerators), and we are facing a probable shortage of manpower to satisfy the demand. /snip/
Jack