Aug. 17 2023
Source Page: UK/Australia: Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy [TS No.32/2023]Found: as the provision of power for a military base drawn from a civil power network, the production of radioisotopes
Written Evidence Mar. 16 2023
Inquiry: Prevention in health and social careFound: Each year, millions of patient treatments are performed using medical radioisotopes.
Apr. 28 2009
Source Page: Radation protection research programme. 34 p.Found: to a combination of exposure to other environmental carcinogens including radon gas and its daughter radioisotopes
Written Evidence Jun. 28 2023
Inquiry: Future cancerFound: There are also additional requirements for the storage of equipment and disposal of radioisotopes
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the reply by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on 22 February (HC Deb, col 286), when they expect NHS England to report on its review of NHS trusts’ radiopharmacy services; and whether that report will be made public.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
NHS England is commissioning an internal review of National Health Service trust radiopharmacy services to take stock of facilities and equipment, workforce and capacity. NHS England expects to finish this review by quarter four of 2023/24. This is an internal review and as such NHS England does not intend to publish any report.
Aug. 17 2023
Source Page: UK/USA: Agreement for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy [TS No.34/2023]Found: fabrication of fu el, post -irradiation examination, blending or downblending of uranium and separation of radioisotopes
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the sustainability of the nuclear medicine workforce; and how this may be affected by the increase in availability of nuclear medicines to treat certain cancers.
Answered by Lord Markham - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)
No assessment has been made.
May. 16 2024
Source Page: Managing radioactive substances and nuclear decommissioningFound: commercially operated disposal facilities for radioactive waste, due to the far smaller inventories of radioisotopes
Asked by: Kerry McCarthy (Labour - Bristol East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure NHS cancer services have supplies of the isotopes used in the detection and measurement of cancer spread, following mechanical failures at the SCK CEN nuclear plant in Belgium.
Answered by Will Quince
The Department has worked closely with the British Society of Nuclear Medicine and other specialist clinicians to issue guidance to the National Health Service on how to manage patient services affected by the recent shortage of Technetium-99m generators and other reactor-produced radioisotopes.
The Government recognises the importance of maintaining access to radioisotopes for medical applications. We are working closely with counterparts in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to explore the role United Kingdom’s nuclear sector could have in supporting access to the reactor-produced medical radioisotopes in the future and to support the delivery of the £6 million Medical Radionuclide Innovation Programme. This is a new scheme aiming to develop technologies which could produce the isotopes required for nuclear medicine.
Sep. 11 2023
Source Page: Space Exploration: Technology RoadmapFound: Radioisotope Power Technologies [3.B.IV] Power generation subsystems using the natural decay heat of radioisotopes