North America

Shutdown At Reactor Could Affect Isotope Supply
16 February 2009

CANWEST NEWS SERVICE(OTTAWA) - A spokesman for Atomic Energy of Canada Limited said a shutdown at Chalk River Laboratories could result in a shortage of medical isotopes. This shutdown came Sunday afternoon when a problem was discovered with the mechanism used to extract the rods containing the radioactive isotopes. MDS Nortan expects a 50 per cent shortage of isotopes from the reactor this week. Source: http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=1295672 (Reliability: Low - 32.04)