Urenco Stable Isotopes has expanded its stable and medical isotopes facility in Almelo, in the Netherlands, officially opened its new Leonardo da Vinci cascade recently. The company - a subsidiary of uranium enrichment company Urenco Nederland BV - said the move was in response to growing demand for medical isotopes.

Urenco Nederland is unique because besides uranium enrichment it also uses its centrifuge technology to produce a variety of stable isotopes for medical, industrial and research applications. Urenco Stable Isotopes has operated for over three decades at Almelo. Each year, more than 100,000 patient treatments are performed using nuclear medicines containing radioisotopes produced with Urenco's stable isotopes.

The new cascade - named after Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci - is designed for the enrichment of multiple isotopes, including cadmium, germanium, iridium, molybdenum, selenium, tellurium, titanium, tungsten, xenon and zinc.

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Urenco Launches New Radioisotope cascade

Source: wnn