Isotope Sciences Program—A National Technology Resource
The Isotope Sciences Program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory supports scientific advances in the production and use of radioisotopes for research, medicine, and industrial applications.
We serve government, private industry, and academic clients in the U.S. and worldwide. Our goal is to provide cost-effective and timely solutions to clients with special needs for expert services.
Program Focus
- Isotope Production—ensuring an adequate supply of medical isotopes.
- Advanced separation techniques for yttrium-90 from strontium-90, bismuth-212 from uranium-232 progeny, actinium-225 and bismuth-213 from thorium-229, radium-223 from actinium-227, and others.
- Radionuclide generators for bismuth-212 and bismuth-213.
- Reactor and accelerator targets using radium-226.
- Recovery and Recycle—enhancing our national security.
- Matching excess radioactive sources with end-users in need of those materials.
- Recovery of orphan radioactive sources for safeguarding and reuse, such as cobalt-60, cesium-137, radium-226, and strontium-90.
- Reprocessing and remanufacturing of radioisotope sources for special applications.
- Applications Research—identifying new chemistry solutions.
- Advanced radiochemical separations and automated systems.
- New drug and device design and testing.
- Client Technical Support—serving the special needs of our clients .
- Animal biodistribution and dosimetry studies.
- Cobalt-57 flood source development and manufacturing.
- External and internal radiation dosimetry, including medical internal dose for diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.
- Medical Internal Radiation Dosimetry
- Radioactive seed and restenosis stent development and testing.
- Radioisotope generators and power sources.