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Isotopes

Cobalt-60 in the Bruce Power fuel bay.

Bruce Power completes largest delivery of cobalt-60 to sterilize medical devices, fight cancer worldwide

2023-11-23

Bruce Power completed delivery of the company’s largest ever harvest of cobalt-60, a crucial isotope used worldwide in the sterilization of billions of pieces of medical equipment and in the ongoing fight against cancer. The medical isotopes, harvested in October, … Read more

Bruce Power worker shows IPS target

Bruce Power and its partners celebrate one year of providing cancer-fighting lutetium-177 using game-changing Isotope Production System

2023-10-24

Bruce Power and its partners, Isogen (a Kinectrics and Framatome company), ITM, and Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON), mark the one-year anniversary of successfully supplying cancer-fighting lutetium-177 across the globe using the innovative Isotope Production System (IPS). With the production of … Read more

Bruce Power worker shows IPS target

Bruce Power and its partners increase capability to produce cancer-fighting lutetium-177 in Unit 7

2023-08-252023-08-24

Already a leader in the production of lutetium-177 for targeted cancer therapy, the international collaboration of Bruce Power, Isogen (a Kinectrics and Framatome company), Gamzook’aamin Aakoziwin (partnership with the Saugeen Ojbiway Nation), and ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE (ITM), has … Read more

Cobalt-60 at Bruce Power

Bruce Power and Nordion increase production of cobalt-60 to bolster world’s health care system

2023-08-17

Beginning from a position of strength as one of the largest suppliers of cobalt-60, Bruce Power and Nordion are working on increasing their production of the medical isotope to meet the increasing demands of the world market. The companies will … Read more

Isotope funding announcement

Government of Canada teams up with Indigenous partners, Bruce Power and the medical isotope community to fight cancer

2023-07-052023-06-27

The Government of Canada has announced its intent to lead the fight against cancer at home and around the world with funding announced today that will support the development of a medical isotope ecosystem in Canada. The partnership includes Indigenous … Read more

Male operator in blue overalls operating the Isotope Production System

Isotope Production System begins commercial production of cancer-fighting lutetium-177

2023-01-162022-10-24

An international collaboration between Bruce Power, Isogen (a Kinectrics and Framatome company) and ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE (ITM), announced today the commencement of commercial production of lutetium-177.    The announcement was celebrated at ITM’s headquarters in Munich, Germany, along … Read more

Bruce Power to explore production of cancer-fighting medical isotope yttrium-90 for global distribution

2022-11-172022-10-03

Bruce Power announced today that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Boston Scientific to explore the feasibility of producing cancer-fighting yttrium-90 (Y-90) in its reactors. The company, already a leading producer of cobalt-60, which is used … Read more

Cobalt-60 rods

Cobalt-60 harvest will sterilize billions of medical devices, support cancer treatments

2022-11-172022-07-20

Bruce Power has successfully completed another harvest of life-saving Cobalt-60, continuing as a world leader in the production of this critical medical isotope.  “Bruce Power continues to be a major supplier of Cobalt-60, and now more than ever the world’s … Read more

yttrium-90 graphic

Bruce Power, Isogen explore production of cancer-fighting Yttrium-90 using innovative Isotope Production System

2022-11-172022-06-24

Building on the success of the new Isotope Production System (IPS) installed in the Unit 7 reactor, Bruce Power and Isogen (a partnership between Kinectrics and Framatome), are examining the feasibility of producing yttrium-90, used as a targeted liver cancer … Read more

An innovative new Isotope Production System

New Isotope Production System at Bruce Power successfully produces first medical isotope

2022-06-282022-06-21

First-of-a-kind Isotope Production System continues to progress towards commercial, industrial-scale production of medical isotopes for cancer therapeutics An international collaboration between Bruce Power, Isogen (a Kinectrics and Framatome company), and ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE (ITM), announced today a milestone … Read more

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