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 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 (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 High Flux nuclear reactor at Petten in the Netherlands was brought online this week, bringing an end to the threat of a shortage of medical isotopes used for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases.
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Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group of the Netherlands has extended the preparatory phase of the new research reactor Pallas, and the final choice for the vendor will be made by the end of 2010.
The Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group of the Netherlands has expressed the preference for the new research reactor Pallas to be built in Petten. The final choice of location will be made in the spring of 2010.
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.
What started as temporary European shortage of radionuclides, caused by the closure of several nuclear reactors, could turn into a long-term medical imaging isotope shortage, because a Dutch radioisotope reactor will not reopen until February, according to the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group.
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