Radionuclides play a critical role in both space missions and health care. With access to frequently used radionuclides becoming increasingly challenging, the United Kingdom is exploring novel production routes from an unlikely source. This event will explore opportunities for the extraction of radionuclides from the UK’s radioactive waste stockpile to address challenges of supply and availability of critical radionuclides for applications in the space and medical sectors, including extracting americium-241 to power ‘space batteries’, developing methods to extract lead-212 for targeted alpha therapies and assessing the wider stockpile for other potentially valuable isotopes. This event is organized by United Kingdom.

This event will be held on Wednesday, 27 September 2023, from 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. in Conference Room CR3, C Building, seventh floor.