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Nuclear Energy for Healthcare: radioisotopes production ⚛️⚕️ Nuclear energy is not only a clean and reliable source of power, it also plays a crucial role in various fields, particularly in #medicine, by producing vital #radioisotopes for medical purposes such as: 🩻Cancer Treatment 🧴Medical Sterilization 🔬Imaging and diagnosis The most important radioisotopes are: 🔹Technetium-99m is the most widely used radioisotope in medical imaging. It emits gamma rays that can be detected by imaging devices, providing detailed images of internal organs. 🔹Cobalt-60 is a high-energy gamma-ray emitter with a half-life of 5.27 years, used in cancer treatment and medical sterilization. 🔹Iodine-131 is an beta emitter used in treating thyroid cancer and hyperthyroidism, with a half-life of 8 days. 🔹Cesium-137 is a beta and gamma emitter used in cancer treatment and industrial radiography, with a half-life of about 30 years. 🔹Strontium-89 is a beta emitter used for pain relief in bone cancer patients, with a half-life of 50 days. 🔹Lutetium-177 is a beta emitter used in targeted radionuclide therapy for certain cancers, such as neuroendocrine tumors, with a half-life of about 6.7 days. 🔹Actinium-225 is an alpha emitter used in targeted alpha therapy (TAT) for cancer treatment, offering high precision in destroying cancer cells while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue, with a half-life of about 10 days. CAELUS understands the importance of nuclear for medical purposes, our committment to making nuclear technologies more accessible and widely deployed is growing stronger each day. 📣 Share to raise awareness about nuclear energy for healthcare. Follow us to know more about our mission to make nuclear technologies #faster and #easier to deploy. Spoiler: it has to do with #GenerativeAI. 💻 #NuclearEnergy #Healthcare #Radioisotopes

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