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Table of Contents

Complete PiC

Year

2010

Volume

66

Number

1

Theme

The Medical Isotope Crisis and the Broader Implications for Research

Cover description

A montage illustrating the main theme of the issue. The photograph represents the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor located near Chalk River, Ontario, which is at the center of the medical isotope crisis. Photo courtesy of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Atom background provided courtesy of the NRC Canadian Neutron Beam Centre.

Articles (Click on the titles to open PDFs in a new tab)

Editorial

• The saga of NRU, the supply of medical isotopes, and the future of neutron scattering in Canada
  • Béla Joós, P.Phys.

Congratulations

• CAP Members Become New Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

• CAP Members Become New Fellows of the American Physical Society

Feature Articles

• Medical Isotopes and the Future of Neutron Scattering in Canada
  • Dominic Ryan

• Medical Isotopes - Sidebar
  • Dominic Ryan

• The Canadian Neutron Source: Strengthening Canada’s Isotope Supply and R&D Capacity
  • Richard Florizone, Dean Chapman

• A Short Term Solution to the Medical Isotope Crisis via Direct Production of Tc-99m at Low Energy: A Piece of the Puzzle
  • Thomas J. Ruth

• Medical Isotope Production Using Commercially-Available Accelerator and Processing Technologies
  • Randy Kobes, Jeff Martin, Kennedy Mang'era, Chris Saunders

• Using the ¹⁰⁰Mo Photoneutron Reaction to Meet Canada’s Requirement for ⁹⁹ᵐTc
  • Carl Ross, Raphael Galea, Patrick Saull, Walter Davidson, Peter Brown, David Brown, Jim Harvey, George Mesinna, Richard Wessenaar, Mark De Jong

• Creating the Future of Chalk River
  • Zin Tun

• Getting Inside Hearts and Minds of Journalists will help Scientists make Better Use of the Media
  • Peter Calamai

• A Precision Measurement of the Muon Decay Parameters ρ and δ
  • Robert Paul MacDonald

CAP News

• Departmental, Sustaining, Corporate and Institutional Members

• Science Policy Corner

Opinion

• Executive Summary of the Report by the Expert Panel on Medical Isotope Production

Education Corner

• Digital Sundials on the Internet, a new way of using Ancient Technology
  • J.M.K.C Doney, P.P. Langill, M.D. Williams, M.J. Russel

Conference Reports

• Canada-America-Mexico 2009 Physics Graduate Student Conference
  • Adrian Buzatu

Ph.D. Degrees Awarded

• PhD Physics Degrees Awarded in Canadian Universities: (Dec.2008-Nov.2009)

Congress Information

• 2010 CAP Congress

Book Reviews

• Book Reviews