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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9734
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EU faced with delays in medical examinations due to defective nuclear reactor

Brussels, 05/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - The fact that a nuclear reactor in Petten (Netherlands) was put out of service for an extended period of time for safety reasons will very certainly delay examinations for the diagnosis of cancer in the EU due to the lack of technetium, a medical isotope. “We are doing everything we can to enable a restart” but, in any case, this will not be before the end of October, the Nuclear Research Group (NRG), which manages the production, states in a press...

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