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Covidien Lines Up More Technetium

by Michael McCoy
March 15, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 11

Covidien will obtain molybdenum-99 from Poland’s Maria Research Reactor for the manufacture of technetium-99m, an isotope used in more than 80% of all nuclear medicine procedures. FDA and Health Canada have approved the Maria reactor, according to Covidien, a major medical imaging company. Technetium-99m has been in short supply for the past year because of an outage at Canada’s Chalk River reactor, which supplies about half the world’s molybdenum-99. Atomic Energy of Canada said last week that the restart has been delayed by about a month until May.

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