The High Flux Reactor (HFR) at Petten in the Netherlands restarted ahead of schedule to help alleviate the shortage of the Technetium-99m used in medicine. The reactor was shut down in August 2008 due to a safety problem.
HFR isotope production reactor restart
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The High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands, which is one of the the largest producers of molybdenum-99, was shut down for repairs on February 19, 2010. The problems with primary contour piping first forced a shutdown of the reactor in... Read More
