The High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands is expected to restart in the second half of August, as the first activities to repair the reactor’s cooling water pipework started today, according to the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group of the Netherlands.
The Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) submitted a request for the environmental impact assessment report for the PALLAS reactor that will replace the High Flux Reactor to the Dutch ministry of housing, spatial planning and the environment.
The Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group returned the High Flux Reactor into operation on Monday, following its annual month-long maintenance stop. With this, the production of medical isotopes and the nuclear research activities are resumed one day ahead of schedule.
MDS Nordion has submitted a proposal to a Canadian government panel on medical isotope and technetium-99m generator production, suggesting that its Multipurpose Applied Physics Lattice Experiment (MAPLE) medical isotope reactor project could become a reality through the adoption of new computer codes.
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The repair of the primary cooling water pipework of the High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands, is currently scheduled to commence on Feb. 19 2010, and the restart is scheduled in the second half of August 2010, according to the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) of the Netherlands.
The Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group, which operates the High Flux Reactor in Petten, Netherlands, has plans to build a new reactor to produce medical isotopes.
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has announced that the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, is now projected to reopen in the first quarter of 2010, due to ongoing repairs that shuttered the 52-year-old facility in May.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.