Making a medical isotope used by millions, S8E1

Published: Feb. 6, 2019, 6:11 p.m.

How can we support nuclear medicine efforts that help more than 40,000 people in the U.S. everyday? Researchers at the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed a way to produce the much-needed radioisotope technetium-99m using small research reactors like the one here at the university.