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Join us for Fall Stakeholder Meetings

These meetings offer an excellent opportunity for companies and institutions to discuss isotope supply and demand issues firsthand with the federal DOE IP Director and Program Managers and the National Isotope Development Center Staff. We look forward to these insightful discussions so we can better serve the isotope community.

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With 225+ isotopes available for purchase, the U.S. Department of Energy Isotope Program is the world leader in quality, purity, and availability of the most sought after and rare isotopes.

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A First Look Inside Radium’s Solid-State Chemistry

For the first time in history, scientists have measured radium’s bonding interactions with oxygen atoms in an organic molecule.

$Illustration by Christopher Orosco, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Illustration of the structure of the radium compound characterized in this research. Single crystal X-ray diffraction provided detailed information on the bonding of radium in an organic molecule for the first time.$

Announcing domestic supply of lead-203

The U.S. Department of Energy Isotope Program is pleased to announce lead-203 (Pb-203) has been added to our catalog and is available for purchase. Pb-203 has drawn interest as a SPECT imaging isotope analogue to the therapeutic Pb-212, an alpha-emitter. Its addition to the NIDC Catalog establishes a theranostic matched pair of isotopes. Pb-203 will be shipped on a monthly basis with the…

SPECT image of 0.8 mCi of Pb-203 as PbCl2 in solution. The material was placed in a small device used to gauge resolution capabilities of the imaging camera against the source isotope. Image courtesy: Suzanne E. Lapi and Shefali Saini, UAB

DOE IP responds to elevated demand for cadmium-109

The U.S. Department of Energy Isotope Program has ramped up production of high specific activity cadmium-109 (Cd-109) to address a recent surge in demand as end users seek to diversify their supply chains.

Translating Research to Applications

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the production of isotopes across the Department's facilities that are critical to everyday applications, particularly in the medical arena.

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Medical Isotopes

With more than 35 medically relevant isotopes available and others under investigation, the NIDC is committed to supplying the world with the highest quality isotopes for medical use.

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Join us for Fall Stakeholder Meetings!

The Department of Energy Isotope Program (DOE IP) invites you to join us for virtual "one-on-one" stakeholder meetings on Sep. 30, Oct. 1 and Oct. 3, 2024.

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DOE Isotope Program HQ Open Position –Federal Program Manager for Stable Isotope Operations

The Department of Energy Office of Science is filling a position for the Isotope R&D and Production Office. The position will function as a program manager for Stable Isotope Operations.

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Recording now available: DOE Isotope Program Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices and Safe Handling of Radium-226

The DOE Isotope Program recently hosted a virtual roundtable with invited speakers from the international community to discuss best practices and the safe handling of radium-226.

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DOE Isotope Program Highlights

Image courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory Abstract representation of subcooled flow boiling modeled on experimental data collected for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Isotope Production Facility.

Deep Learning Model Developed to Optimize Isotope Production Target Cooling Systems

July 29, 2024

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$Illustration by Christopher Orosco, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Illustration of the structure of the radium compound characterized in this research. Single crystal X-ray diffraction provided detailed information on the bonding of radium in an organic molecule for the first time.$