Canada's Recent Isotope Crisis Has U.S. Exploring Alternatives

The National Academy of Science, a group of scientists based in Washington that advises Congress on a number of issues, has been asked to consider four questions — all relating to the supply of medical isotopes, and whether the U.S. should consider producing its own. The options are expensive, says Naoko Ishibe, NAS program officer of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board in the Earth and life studies division of the National Academy of Science. "It's hard to know if that's something the U.S. would want to fund, but with this recent crisis in Chalk River, there's a little more urgency in terms of not having that domestic supply," she told CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/01/09/isotope-crisis.html

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