NIDC News

The NIDC is hiring!
The NIDC is seeking a Legacy Isotope Product Manager to oversee isotope production, customer interactions, and logistics, as well as an Inventory Control Specialist to manage isotope inventory across the DOE IP production network.
November Isotope Spotlights
The DOE Isotope Program maintains an extensive inventory of radioactive and stable isotopes. Below are a select few that are currently in inventory or will be soon to meet your research and commercial needs.
EANM 2024
Meet with the DOE Isotope Program and the National Isotope Development Center at the 37th Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine.

DOE Isotope Program Highlights

Image courtesy of Mike Zach, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This electron microscope image shows spherical bismuth powder. Each particle in the photo is about the diameter of a human hair (approximately 60 micrometers).

Spherical Powders Enable New Applications for Metals

Free-flowing metal powders offer improvements for additive manufacturing, isotope production target fabrication, and more.
Student working in the Texas A&M University lab processing astatine-211. Image courtesy of Texas A&M University.

New Understanding of Astatine’s Chemical Properties Will Aid Targeted Alpha Therapy for Cancer

Recently, scientists at Texas A&M University investigated astatine’s behavior when interacting with ion exchange and extraction chromatography resins.
Illustration by Christopher Orosco, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Illustration of the structure of the radium compound characterized in this research. Single crystal X-ray diffraction provided detailed information on the bonding of radium in an organic molecule for the first time.

A First Look Inside Radium’s Solid-State Chemistry

Researchers used single crystal X-ray diffraction to learn about the structure and bonding of a highly radioactive radium compound.