South African nuclear achievement crowned by US award

South African company NTP Radioisotopes (NTP), a subsidiary of the State-owned South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, has been presented with an Award for Outstanding Achievement by the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), an agency of the US Department of Energy (DoE), the two organisations simultaneously announced in Pelindaba and Washington DC on Friday. The award is for NTP’s successful and world-first conversion of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) medical radioisotope production ...