3-D Imaging For Monitoring Reactor Systems, Power Plants
The researchers of Ohio State University have invented a technique that will scan the gases and solids, in three-dimensional images, inside the boilers and other industrial processing reactors. // Scientists can use the patented technique, called electrical capacitance volume tomography (ECVT...MDS Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
...r blood flow. After the end of the quarter, in May 2009, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) announced that its National Research Universal (NRU) reactor would be out of service for at least three months. Based on historical EBITDA trends related to NRU-supplied isotopes, MDS expects the financial impac...MDS Nordion Provides Update on AECL's Medical Isotope Supply Disruption
...as advised MDS Nordion that they anticipate the National Research Universal reactor (NRU) will remain out of service for more than one month. According to a pr... a result of a heavy water leak that has been identified at the base of the reactor vessel. AECL has indicated that repair options are currently under consider...Ongoing worldwide shortage of medical isotopes could threaten patient care, says expert
...rs had managed to arrange contingencies to ensure supplies during scheduled reactor down time or critical shut down. However, a series of unavoidable mainte...River to fix safety back-up systems and a six-month shut down of the Petten reactor from August 2008 after corroded pipes were discovered in its primary coolin...Kuwait Purchases 5.4 Million Doses of Emergency Nuclear Radiation Drug from Nukepills.com
...oid cancer in those exposed to radioactive iodine in the event of a nuclear reactor accident or fallout from a nuclear weapon. Potassium iodide protects agains...ation emergency products that protect against dirty bomb radiation, nuclear reactor accidents and nuclear weapon fallout, and are used for radiation therapy/de...DSM Announces Yield Boosts of 5-10 Fold With XD(R) Technology for Mammalian Manufacturing Platforms
...om small disposable bioreactors." Karen King, President at DSM Biologics, adds, "Our XD(R) Technology offers a substantial increase in titers and reactor output and has the potential to increase product quality as the producer cells are maintained at extremely high viability throughout the entire proces...Cephalon Signs Option Agreement to Acquire Ception Therapeutics
...ticipated scientific progress on its research programs, development of potential pharmaceutical products such as reslizumab or an oral active anti-TNF reactor agent, the relative value to Cephalon's business and the effect on Cephalon's long-term growth of biologic products and the possible acquisition of Ce...Lytix Presents LTX-109 Anti-Microbial Data at ICAAC
...tic antimicrobial pepitidomimetic (SAMP) drug with a rapid bactericidal mode of action that can effectively synthesized in scalable, low-cost chemical reactor systems. About Lytix Biopharma AS Lytix Biopharma AS develops novel drugs for the treatment of resistant bacterial and fungal infectio...I-Plant™ 125 Brachytherapy Seeds
Description:... the radioactive wet chemistry method of manufacturing existing Iodine-125 and Palladium-103 seeds. Implant Sciences sends the seed cores to a nuclear reactor for activation followed by final assembly, testing, and assaying....American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- May 6, 2009
...eract with coolants. In nuclear power plants, these oxides trap radioactive ions, leading to buildups of radioactivity that require costly cleanups of reactor surfaces. Cobalt, present in some alloys used in the reactors' water systems, is a major contributor toward this problem because of its long half-life...Story tips From the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- May 2009
... A team led by C.S. Chang of New York University recently used the XGC1 code to verify that turbulence in the well-confined edge of plasma in a fusion reactor can penetrate the core and boost its temperature. While this has long been believed to be the case, this simulation provides proof and sets the stage ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- April 22, 2009
...e of natural gas, and are renowned as the "ice that burns." They burst into flame when ignited. To test their idea, the scientists used a special reactor to produce tiny pellets of carbon dioxide hydrates in the laboratory. They compared the fire-suppressing performance of these hydrates to similar-size...K-State researchers work with university in Ghana to create biofuels from native tree seeds
...ng this type of biodiesel. Wenqiao "Wayne" Yuan, K-State assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering, has expertise in biodiesel reactor design and conversion. When funding is available for the pilot-scale biodiesel plant in Ghana, Yuan has offered to work with Kpikpi to create the faci...Ben-Gurion University engineers develop technique to help combat nuclear proliferation
...tonium. An article on the technique and findings will appear next month in the Science and Global Security journal. "When you purchase a nuclear reactor from one of the five countries, it also provides the nuclear fuel for the reactor," explains Prof. Yigal Ronen, of BGU's Department of Nuclear Enginee...British journal publishes inorganic chemistry research of NJIT professor
... molecules generate, very efficiently, a highly-reactive species of oxygen, while resisting its attack, thus constituting a "Teflon-coated" industrial reactor as a single molecule. The catalytic activity, incorporation of oxygen into an industrially relevant organic substrate, requires only light and air, a...Engineering technology pinpoints earliest signs of animal life
...lteration." Hydropyrolysis also known as HyPy was developed into a commercial system through collaboration with Engineering & Quality Systems and reactor engineering specialist Strata Technology. It was originally designed to liquefy large quantities of coal and strip down complex mixtures of organic ch...Novel bioreactor enhances interleukin-12 production in genetically modified tobacco plants
... modified tobacco plants were then grown in a mist reactor developed in the Weathers lab. As its name implies, the mist reactor uses ultrasonic technology to spray a fine mist of...could cross-pollinate with other species. Our mist reactor overcomes those concerns because the system is com...ThalesNano Flow Reactor Realizes Microwave Speed With Scale-up Ability
BUDAPEST, Hungary, LONDON and PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ThalesNano today announced a big step forward in the evolution of flow chemistry with the independent publication of results that prove that flow chemistry can match microwave chemistry in terms of speed, but with the ability t...Clemson researcher studies carbon fibers for nuclear reactor safety
CLEMSON, S.C. Carbon fibers that are only one-tenth the size of a human hair, but three times stronger than steel, may hold up to the intense heat and radiation of next generation nuclear power generators, providing a safety mechanism. The Gen IV power-generating reactors are being designed to pr...MATC bio-diesel reactor to support training
Madison, Wis. - Madison Area Technical College 's new biodiesel reactor will not only produce clean fuel, it will help educate the technicians that will be entrusted with maintaining and improving the emerging technology. The reactor, developed as part of a joint project between MATC and the ...TSH Testing Raises Awareness of Importance of Thyroid Health
...made at Croton on Hudson, during this year's Clearwater Festival. The festival is held just downstream from Indian Point, the oldest operating nuclear reactor in the U.S. In keeping with Clearwater's commitment to a clean environment, it stepped up by permitting testing for elevated Thyroid Stimulating Hormo...Avantium to Deliver Flowrence System to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), USA
...ic Northwest National Laboratory has signed an agreement with Avantium to enable the sale and delivery of an Avantium Flowrence(TM) parallel fixed bed reactor system. The Flowrence(TM) will allow PNNL to accelerate its catalyst research for infrastructure compatible biofuels and bioproducts. PNNL is o...The Importance of Mixing: How to Compare Lab Scale Mixing with Full Scale Process Vessel Performance
...ubstantial. Therefore, at the heart of any scale-up chemical process, there has to be a fundamental understanding of how the mixing processes in a lab reactor compares to the mixing performance of a full scale process vessel which is targeted to receive the lab developed process. Your webinar presenter,...Zinsser Analytic and ThalesNano Collaborate on Distributing Products
...he company has the widest portfolio of bench-top continuous process instruments. Its R&D 100 award winning H-Cube(R) continuous-flow hydrogenation reactor and the pilot plant scale version H-Cube Midi(TM) are used in hundreds of laboratories in four continents and have become the new industry standard fo...