Power from Radioisotopes

Industry Benefits from Radioisotopes

The most rapid contribution which atomic energy makes to the economy of a country is by the industrial applications of radioisotopes. In research they may be used to reveal unique information about the nature of chemical processes , or as a fast and cheap tool to provide information more quickly or more accurately than could be obtained by other means. In manufacturing they are used to control ...

Radioisotopes in Medicine

Nuclear medicine uses radiation to provide diagnostic information about the functioning of a person's specific organs, or to treat them. Diagnostic procedures are now routine.. Radiotherapy can be used to treat some medical conditions, especially cancer, using radiation to weaken or destroy particular targeted cells. Millions of nuclear medicine procedures are performed each year, and demand fo...

3 Radioisotopes and Nanomedicine

Nanomedicine, the medical application of nanotechnology, is poised to make a major impact on the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. It is a relatively new branch of science that involves harnessing the unique properties of particles that are nanometers in scale (nanoparticles) for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Nanoparticles (NPs) can be engineered with precise sizes, shap...

Undesirable Radioisotopes Induced by Therapeutic Beams from Medical Linear Accelerators

Probabilistic Prognosis of Environmental Radioactivity Concentrations due to Radioisotopes Discharged to Water Bodies from Nuclear Power Plants

Due to their very low values, the complexity of comparing the contribution of nuclear power plants (NPPs) to environmental radioactivity with modeled values is recognized. In order to compare probabilistic prognosis of radioactivity concentrations with environmental measurement values, an exercise was performed using public data of radioactive routine discharges from three representative Spanis...