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The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, or DOE-SC, has awarded $529 million to continue world-leading nuclear science research at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. The new cooperative agreement provides $529,068,000 over five years to operate FRIB as a DOE-SC user facility to enable unprecedented discovery opportunities envisioned by a user community of 1,800 scientists, supporting the mission of the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics.

The U.S. needs more radioisotopes to meet medical, industrial, research and security needs. Tuesday talk to focus on plans for new facility at ORNL.

TerraPower Isotopes and Belgian joint venture PanTera have announced a collaboration to increase the global availability of actinium-225, while Arizona-based Serva Energy has developed a new research reactor-based production method to ramp up the supply of the rare radioisotope.

Brookhaven National Laboratory has announced the shipment of the first actinium-225 to be produced in a newly refurbished hot cell laboratory at the US Department of Energy's lab. The new facilities will streamline production and shipment of the rare radioisotope for the development of new cancer treatments.

Researchers need a better way to extract individual heavy metal elements, called actinides, to obtain a purer product. In 2018, researchers discovered that the actinide berkelium, when oxidized, does not form negatively charged ions in solutions of high nitric acid, as other actinides do.