Bruce Power completes shipment of Cobalt-60 for worldwide use in the ongoing fight against COVID-19 and cancer
Bruce
Power has completed another harvest of Cobalt-60, a vital resource in
supporting the global fight against the Omicron variant by sterilizing billions
of pieces of medical equipment used by frontline health care workers.
The
medical isotopes were harvested during the ongoing Unit 7 outage and sent to
Ottawa-based Nordion for processing. From there, Bruce Power’s Cobalt-60 will
be shipped around the world to sterilize up to 10 billion pairs of surgical
gloves and single-use medical devices, as well as being used in the treatment
of breast cancer and brain tumors. Cobalt-60 sterilizes 40 per cent of the
world’s single-use medical equipment. It
sterilizes medical supplies faster and in larger volumes than other forms of
sterilization, ensuring supplies are efficiently prepared for frontline health
care workers and hospitals. Throughout the pandemic, as demand for personal
protective equipment increased, Bruce Power’s Cobalt-60 supported the supply of
these crucial items.
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