Reactor shutdown causes shortage for Orlando isotope lab - Orlando Business Journal:

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The Chalk River which produces about 50 percent ofthe world’ws supply of radioactive isotopes used in medicall imaging, shut down May 15 because of a leak and isn’ t expected to return to service for four months or There are only five such reactor in the world — none in the United States — and only two dominanft players, Chalk River and a reactor in ­thse Netherlands. The Chalk River shutdown directlyaffectx , which has 26 nuclear pharmacies in the including eight in Florida in Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Jacksonville, Fort Myers, Pensacola and Panama The pharmacies make and distribute radioactive pharmaceutical producta used in diagnostic imaging procedures.