Partnership for University Reactor-Based Isotope Production of Selenium-75 Finalized

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Isotope Program is pleased to announce a new partnership with the University of Missouri that further strengthens the nation’s isotope portfolio. Finalized in May 2017, the partnership enables the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (MURR), located in Columbia, Missouri, to supply the biological tracer and research isotope selenium-75 (Se-75) through the National Isotope Development Center’s (NIDC) Isotope Business Office. The high purity, high specific activity Se-75 will be routinely processed and dispensed from inventory at the MURR.\

This partnership marks the second agreement (first reactor-based production agreement) within a network of university facilities that works with the DOE Isotope Program to promote production and availability of high priority isotopes, as recommended in the NSAC-I 2015 Long-Range Plan. Consideration of additional university sites to the network is underway.

Quotation requests for Se-75 may be placed using the NIDC’s Online Catalog of Isotope Products. For further information, please contact Dr. Wolfgang Runde (runde@lanl.gov), Associate Director for Production Planning and Customer Relations, NIDC.