CLS, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
In recent years, there has been frequent shortages of Mo-99 and its daughter isotope, Tc-99m, which are the most heavily used medical diagnostic radio-isotopes. The Canadian Light Source is leading a project to demonstrate large-scale photo-neutron production of Mo-99 using a high-power 35 MeV electron linac as an alternative to production of Mo-99 from fission of highly enriched U-235 in research reactors. This talk will present the results that have been obtained to date and discuss the commercial potential for this alternative production scheme.
