“How is nuclear medicine adapting to green energy?”
I want to know how is nuclear medicine adapting to green energy?
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We are lucky in that most of our radiopharmaceuticals have very short half-lives. They decay down to non-radioactive compounds. For those that use xenon gas, it is expelled from airductsabove the building. Due to dispersion and decay, the environmental effect is minimal. For those isotopes with longer half-lives, used for therapy purposes, the decay is within the patient. Our transport containers are reusable. Syringes, of course cannot be reused and are disposed of .