Podcasts Technology Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy Ep 40: Amanda Youker - Isotope Production, Argonne National Lab

Ep 40: Amanda Youker - Isotope Production, Argonne National Lab

Published: July 13, 2018, 10 a.m.

Episode Content:​

  • Amanda's interest in chemistry and her work at a crime lab.  

  • A breakdown of molybdenum 99 and technetium 99m.  

  • Why metastable isotopes are useful for medical applications.  

  • What are ligins?  

  • From a security perspective, why it's in the US' interest to domestically produce molybdenum 99.  

  • The traditional and nontraditional methods of producing molybdenum 99.  

  • Tradeoffs of different production processes.  

  • The Argonne Molybdenum Research Experiment.  

  • Why precipitating uranium creates a hotspot.  

  • How corrosion can be beneficial in producing uranium peroxide precipitate.  

  • What's in store for the future.