NIDC News

The Lawrence Awards recognize mid-career U.S. scientists and engineers for exceptional contributions and achievements in research and development supporting the broad missions of the U.S. Department of Energy and its programs to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States. Awards will be considered in each of the following nine categories: Atomic, Molecular, and…

            Ken Brooks - DOE IP Program Manager for Isotope Operations and NIDC Ken joined the DOE Isotope Program in 2021 and is the Program Manager for Isotope Operations and the NIDC. Ken manages the business activities of the DOE Isotope Program, including production, sales, and distribution of isotopes.  Before joining the DOE Isotope Program, Ken spent more than 25 years at the…

Join Our 2021 Isotope User Group Meetings! In 2021 the DOE Isotope Program will host four virtual user group meetings focused on the following emerging alpha and beta emitters: actinium-225, astatine-211, lead-212, and new this year, copper-67. The purpose of the meetings is to encourage free discussion and collaboration amongst users of specific isotopes and accelerate their widespread use in…

Did you know that Michigan State University is home to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, a next-generation accelerator for nuclear structure and astrophysics research and the newest user facility within the DOE Office of Science? The FRIB program was recently awarded a grant worth $13 million over the next four years from the DOE Isotope Program…

2021 Summer Virtual Graduate Student Recruitment Fair | July 22, 2021 Click here to apply

  SNMMI Starts This Week The DOE Isotope Program would love to virtually see you at the SNMMI annual meeting later this week! Make sure to visit our virtual booth in the exhibit hall. Search for U.S. DOE Isotope Program or click on our logo in the Virtual Courtyard or Virtual Lobby during the event. Join Our Researchers for a CE Session Join Cathy Cutler and Vanessa Sanders from Brookhaven…

The DOE Office of Science is excited to announce a new Funding Opportunity for up to $2 million to support translational research and development (R&D) of novel, medically relevant isotopes to accelerate evaluation for usage in pre-clinical and clinical trials. “This funding will advance research to evaluate new isotopes for use in pre-clinical and clinical trials, with potentially…

The DOE IP community is hiring! Visit the Careers page to see a comprehensive list of openings including multiple full-time positions at Brookhaven, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Argonne National Laboratories and a junior faculty position at the Michigan State University. Click below to view the full list of positions. View the full list of open positions

These meetings offer an excellent opportunity for companies and institutions to discuss isotope supply and demand issues firsthand with the federal DOE IP director, federal DOE program managers, and the NIDC staff from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We are looking forward to these insightful discussions and aim to better serve the isotope community through a clearer understanding of…

Ask Brian Egle about his favorite aspect of his job and he'll tell you it's the variety. “It’s really fun and really engaging to get to ask yourself, ‘What do you want to work on today?’” says Brian, a recently appointed section head in the newly formed Isotope Science & Engineering Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As part of a lab-wide organizational update known as ”…