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The University of Missouri has launched an initiative to build a new, larger research reactor, NextGen MURR. The university's existing MU Research Reactor (MURR) - in operation for more than half a century - is the highest-powered university research reactor in the USA and is currently the country's only producer of certain medical radioisotopes.

Date: Saturday, 01 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-isotope-producing-research-reactor-for-Missour

Belgium’s Institute for Radioelements (IRE), a key producer of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) and iodine-131 (I-131) widely used in nuclear medicine, has complete conversion of its production process to low-enriched uranium (LEU). This has ended the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which is seen as a proliferation risk.

Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbelgiums-ire-moves-to-100-low-enriched-uranium-10719323

All major global molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) production facilities are now using low-enriched uranium (LEU) targets instead of proliferation-sensitive highly-enriched uranium (HEU) following the completion of work to convert Belgium's National Institute of Radioelements (IRE) medical isotope production facility.

Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Mo-99-production-reaches-non-proliferation-milesto

Belgium's SCK-CEN nuclear research centre has received all the licences needed for the construction and operation of a facility to support the RECUMO project to manage and recycle radioactive residues from the production of medical radioisotopes.

Date: Saturday, 05 March 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Belgian-regulators-OK-isotope-residue-facility

Scientists at Russia’s DI Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology (MUCTR) have developed a new technology for the manufacture of a sorbent for the elusive form of radioactive iodine - methyl iodide.

Date: Thursday, 21 January 2021
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-scientists-develop-a-supersorbent-for-radioactive-iodine-8462287

Of the 220 research reactors in operation today, only seven are on the African continent. In other words, with 17.2% of the world population and the strongest expected growth in the coming years, Africans have access to only 3% of the world's nuclear research reactor capacity. Marguerite Leonardi, senior advisor at NPC Consulting & Engineering, and Professor Vincent Lukanda Mwamba, Commissaire Général of the Commissariat Général à l’Energie Atomique, explain why that is a concern and why the research reactor in Kinshasa should be restarted urgently.

Date: Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-Why-research-reactors-are-so-important-f

Belgium’s Institute for Radioelements (IRE) has produced its first commercial molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) low enriched uranium (LEU) batch for the US market.

Date: Friday, 08 May 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsbelgium-produces-mo-99-for-the-usa-using-leu-fuel-7911908

Belgium's Institute of Radioelements (IRE) has produced its first batch of the medical radioisotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) using a low-enriched uranium (LEU) target rather than a high-enriched uranium (HEU) one. The use of HEU is seen as a potential nuclear proliferation risk.

Date: Tuesday, 05 May 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Belgium-starts-producing-Mo-99-using-LEU

The South African government has replaced the entire board of the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) following alleged failures in its statutory duties including legislative non-compliance, non-adherence to shareholder instructions, financial mismanagement and a failure to return the country's radioisotope manufacturing facility to full functionality a year after it was shut down due to safety concerns.

Date: Monday, 10 December 2018
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/South-African-government-replaces-Necsa-board

December saw Russia sign various nuclear agreements with Uzbekistan, Brazil and Sudan as well as strengthening is co-operation with the Philippines.   

Date: Thursday, 04 January 2018
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussia-signs-more-nuclear-cooperation-agreements-6018760