To illustrate the U.S. government’s “interest to develop and efforts to help ensure a reliable supply” of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), Dr. Matt Heavner, Ph.D., assistant director for global security for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, addressed an open meeting at the SNMMI conference in San Diego last week.
Heavner noted that about 80 percent of the medical isotope is “used in nuclear medical diagnostic procedures that you perform every day.” He also noted that America consumes about half the world’s supply of Mo-99.
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