May 23 – 24 – Adelaide – Australian Energy Storage Conference & Exhibition
USA now producing medical radioisotopes without nuclear reactor (no need to import them from Lucas Heights)
U.S. FDA Approves NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes’ RadioGenixTMSystem (Technetium Tc 99m Generator) for Non-uranium Sourced Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) Production of Imaging Isotope Technetium-99m (Tc-99m)
– Enables domestic Mo-99 supply produced without uranium for U.S. healthcare –
– First U.S. source of medical radioisotope Mo-99 in more than 25 years –
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1.This month
For international news go to https://nuclear-news.net/
Federal nuclear waste dump plan – unnecessary for medical purposes – theme for May 2018
The Lucas Heights nuclear reactor offers a “cover”, respectability, for the nuclear power and nuclear waste industries to get into this country.
The real agenda for Australia’s Lucas Heights nuclear reactor has always been to maintain an opening for the nuclear industry. With Lucas Heights and ANSTO, nuclear expertise is continued, in preparation for possible Australian nuclear power, and nuclear weapons.
The Lucas Heights nuclear reactor now functions as a support for the Australian uranium industry, and a foot in the door for an Australian nuclear waste import industry.
ANSTO is not facing up to the reality that non-nuclear methods – e.g cyclotrons can now produce all medical radioisotopes. Nor is ANSTO admitting that medical radioactive wastes are most suitably be dealt with at the local level, near the point of use. NO NEED FOR A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP OVER A THOUSAND Km AWAY!
Medical Isotope and Cyclotron Facility
The Senate Inquiry on Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. has now 88 submissions published Brett Stokes and I are going through them, not at this point able to estimate how many pro-nuke how many anti-nuke.
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EVENTS
See our page: Submissions on Radioactive Waste Code 2018/ Submissions published by ARPANSA are overwhelmingly critical, and in opposition to the Federal nuclear dump plan for rural South Australia. [not to be confused with the current SENATE INQUIRY Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia.]
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Say no to the federal plan to dump and store nuclear waste in SA.
Don’t Let Frydenberg approve Yeelirrie uranium mine or extinction!
No Nuclear Bundabunda at Brewarrina – bad poison [SIGN THE PETITION]
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Technetium 99m becomes technetium 99 which is long-lived and extremely dangerous. Any benefits are outweighed by the dangers to other people and the environment. There are things like digital xrays, CT scans, and ultrasound-doppler ultrasound which don’t use radioisotopes.
Thank you, miningawareness. I confess that I have not studied/followed that rather worrying chain of technetium 99, and I need to do so. For the time being, it is clear that medicine is going to keep on using those radioisotopes – in nuclear medicine procedures that are beyond the scope of Xrays, CT scans, ultrasound etc. My first focus is to get rid of nuclear reactors. In Australia, the nuclear lobby is very successfully touting its one nuclear reactor as “essential for medicine” – i.e – “it’s only purpose is medical”. That myth must be busted.
Thank you and thank you for your kind reply. I understand. And, I agree (not that it matters). Australia certainly needs to protect itself because right now it still has a much lower background radiation than the US or Europe, despite the mining and despite some weapons exposure. Hopefully Australia has better standards than the US on for medical discharges. But, technetium is very bad and needs to be fought, whether reactors or medicine.
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/12/30/important-to-oppose-production-of-technetium-99m-precursor-mo-99-even-late-technetium-99-stays-radioactive-for-millions-of-years/
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/tc-99m-becomes-tc-99-which-stays-in-environment-for-millions-of-years-medical-and-non-medical-production-should-be-banned-comment-deadline-30-december-2016/
It does matter. We all work together – trying to shine a light of truth on the web of pro nuclear lies. I doubt that Australia has better standards on radioactive wastes. The authorities are in denial about this – make contradictory statements to the public.
The US made a “patient release rule” which allows the hospitals to release patients even if it exposes the passers-by to an estimated 5 mSv of radiation (compared to 0.25 to 1 mSv per year for reactors). It saves insurance money and hospital cleanup. It is also dangerous for hotel guests and workers (especially maids) since many patients stay there. The EU has maintained the original “standards”, I think. Australia, I’m not sure: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/us-radiation-release-rule-for-i-131-patients-allowing-high-public-exposure-comes-back-on-hospital-er-causing-panic https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/is-petition-for-increasing-public-exposure-to-radiation-a-usnrc-inside-job-retired-nrc-counsel-carol-marcus-wrote-another-petition-at-the-request-of-nrc-staff Someone tested an old watch which if worn 24 hours would expose the person wearing it to 70 mSv. I think these watches (and medical exposures and weapons and radium craze) made cancer seem “normal” and then the nuclear industry can statistically hide their cancers under these earlier cancers.
On the 70 mSv radium faced watch I meant per year. Over 10 years this would have given the person around a 7% chance of additional life-shortening cancer according to BEIR (which is a very low and conservative estimate). I think a CT scan is around 25 mSv.