Sentences with phrase «produce radioisotope»

In a collaborative study appearing in Nature, researchers from Japan describe how gamma rays from lightning react with the air to produce radioisotopes and even positrons — the antimatter equivalent of electrons.

CE: Stars produced radioisotopes.

Atomic accelerators bombard nuclei; adding that energy produces radioisotopes and rapid decay.

Not exact matches

The Tehran Research Reactor is used mainly for producing medical radioisotopes, not weapons, but Iran's dogged effort to produce fuel for it sparked the latest international crisis over the nation's nuclear ambitions — and helped motivate the July 2015 nuclear deal to constrain them.

PUBLICATIONS Nuclear Medicine without Nuclear Reactor or Uranium Enrichment (2013) 13 July 2013 All commonly used medical radioisotopes can be produced without using...

All commonly used medical radioisotopes can be produced without using nuclear reactors or enriching uranium, or can be replaced with other isotopes that can be produced without a fission reaction, or by alternative technologies.

Von Hippel speculates that the remaining centrifuges there could be used to make purer preparations of mercury isotopes for fluorescent lighting, for example, or for enriching molybdenum - 98, which could then be irradiated with neurtons to produce molybdenum - 99, a radioisotope used in medicine.

Achieving that longer lead time requires blocking Iran's four routes to nuclear weapons: through its Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities, where thousands of centrifuges separate uranium isotopes; through plutonium production at the Arak heavy water reactor, which Iran says is needed to produce medical radioisotopes; and by way of a covert path involving undisclosed facilities.