The facility will include a will include a water-cooled research reactor, an experimental gamma-installation, a cyclotron and radiopharmacology complex, engineering facilities and various laboratories. Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom said it has successfully tested facilities for the production of radiopharmaceuticals at a $300m nuclear research complex in Bolivia.

According to Rosatom, radiopharmaceuticals produced at the site will be used in more than 5,000 medical procedures a year in Bolivia. Radiopharmaceuticals, or medicinal radiocompounds, are a group of pharmaceutical drugs containing radioactive isotopes. They can be used as diagnostic and therapeutic agents.

Rosatom said commissioning work is continuing at the facility, which will include a water-cooled research reactor with nominal power of up to 200 kW, an experimental gamma-installation, a cyclotron and radiopharmacology complex, engineering facilities and various laboratories.

• Rosatom
• Russia
• Radiopharmaceutical
• Radiopharmacology

Source: Nucnet

Date: Thursday, 30 December 2021

Original article: nucnet.org/news/russia-tests-production-facilities-for-radiopharmaceuticals-at-new-nuclear-research-centre-12-3-2021

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