Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of current suppliers of molybdenum-99 located in countries that are not members of Euratom.
Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) is currently made in nuclear research reactors. There are currently six active reactors in the world that produce more than 90% of the world’s Mo-99 supply, the following table lists these reactors and their location. Australia and South Africa are not members of Euratom.
Reactor | Location | |
HFR |
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| Belgium | |
Safari-1 |
| |
MARIA | Poland | |
OPAL | Australia | |
LVR-15 | Czech Republic |