NIDC News
Our NIDC News reports the latest developments in U.S. Department of Energy’s isotope production efforts, university partnerships, facility improvements, staff news, and other notable center activities as they occur. Stay Connected
May 8, 2015
The DOE Isotope Program is pleased to announce the upcoming release of new website tools for NIDC Preferred Customers within the Online Catalog of Isotope Products at https://www.isotopes.gov/. To apply for NIDC Preferred Customer status, you must be a researcher or administrator from a U.S. research institution or university. The new website capabilities will allow NIDC Preferred Customers to…
May 5, 2015
This announcement is to inform our customers that the NIDC's contact and mailing list addresses have changed. Our new contact email address has been changed to "contact@isotopes.gov". Our mailing list address has been changed to "isotope-news@isotopes.gov". Please check your email client settings to ensure that these new email addresses are not being blocked by your spam filter. The old email…
May 4, 2015
The DOE Isotope Program (DOE-IP) has decided not to auction helium-3 in 2015. The current market supply appears to be sufficient enough to meet the demand this year. If your organization needs helium-3 gas and you are unable to find a commercial supplier, please contact the NIDC.
May 4, 2015
Dear Colleagues,
This is an update to the original March 31, 2015 NIDC notice. The NIDC announcement regarding the Isotopes Facilities Program Manager position. The position will be posted on www.usajobs.gov on June 15 and will close on July 15. Please distribute to interested parties. This is an important position within the DOE Isotope Program. Serious inquiries may be directed to me.…
April 16, 2015
The National Isotope Development Center (NIDC) is pleased to announce resumption of the routine availability of W-188 in the form of liquid solution, or as a W-188/Re-188 generator. If you are interested in purchasing W-188, please request a price quotation using the Online Catalog of Isotope Products. For more information, please contact our office at contact@isotopes.gov.
The W-188/Re-188…
April 13, 2015
The DOE Isotope Program (DOE IP) announces the resumption of target irradiations at the Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) to provide bulk HSA cobalt-60 (Co-60) for sealed-source production. Irradiations had ceased in 2012 after the failure of a Co-60 production target. The DOE IP organized and supported a team of engineers from INL and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (…
January 20, 2015
The NIDC will have milligram quantities of berkelium-249 (Bk-249) available during late-March/early-April for interested researchers. If you are interested in purchasing, please request a price quotation at the Bk-249 Isotope Catalog Web page. Please reply by January 30, 2015.
November 20, 2014
The Department of Energy's Isotope Program has set aside two days (Thursday, January 8, and Friday, January 9) for "one on one" meetings with interested commercial isotope customers to discuss isotope supply and demand issues. The meetings will be held at the DOE Germantown, Maryland office, or at a nearby location. The meetings provide an opportunity for the isotope community to discuss isotope…
October 10, 2014
This announcement is intended to seek information from private companies on their potential isotope needs for the next five years and is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) or an Invitation for Bid (IFB), nor is it to be construed as a commitment by the Government. The Government does not intend to contract on the basis of this request or otherwise pay for any information solicited herein.
The…
September 25, 2014
The Medical Isotope Research and Production (MIRP) Program in the Collider-Accelerator Department is funded by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Physics to produce and distribute radioisotopes for nuclear medicine research and clinical practice, and to develop radioisotopes and radiopharmaceuticals for new applications in medicine and science. This program uses the Brookhaven…
