Options for UK Technetium-99m Production using Accelerators

Recent and ongoing shortages in reactor-based supplies of molybdenum-99 for hospital production of the important medical radioisotope Technetium-99m have prompted the re-examination of the alternative production methods using conventional and laser-based particle accelerators. At present the UK has no domestic source of molybdenum99 and relies exclusively on overseas supply; the National Health Service, with professional partners, is therefore...