Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology gets cyclotron complex with radiochemical lab
The
State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM (Russia) and Kinetics Corporation Ltd.
(Thailand) will supply a cyclotron complex with radiochemical laboratories for
the Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (TINT). Following the results of
the procurement procedure conducted by TINT, Kinetics Corporation, with its
offer based on ROSATOM’s
technologies, was awarded a turn-key contract. RUSATOM Healthcare, a subsidiary
of ROSATOM, will act as the technology provider.
The
facility will be located at Ongkharak Nuclear Research Centre in Nakhon Nayok.
With an area of more than 5400 m2, the new complex will accommodate a cyclotron
and several laboratories for the production of radiopharmaceuticals for nuclear
medicine and other purposes, as well as serve as a platform for R&D
activities in the field of radiation technologies and innovations.
Currently
all the isotopes for SPECT in Thailand are imported, with some PET isotopes
produced in hospitals locally in amounts that cannot satisfy the demand. Thus,
the new cyclotron supplied by ROSATOM will allow Thailand to produce its own
isotopes to save lives and help to boost innovations in the country. The
project will also drive the R&D activities in nuclear medicine, as well as
in application of nuclear technologies in the different areas of industry.
The
core of the complex will be a MCC-30/15 cyclotron of 30 MeV proton energy, supplied
by ROSATOM. It will be utilized also to produce isotopes for PET and SPECT
diagnostics. These isotopes allow determining the stage of oncological,
cardiac, and neurological diseases accurately, and in many cases may be almost
the only way to prescribe appropriate treatment.
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Source: NuclearForum.Asia