Commercial spinoffs.(Theragenics Corp., nLine Corp.)(Brief Article)

Fusion Power Report,  July, 2002  

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Two commercial applications from fusion research, recently announced, concern the production of commercial isotopes for medical uses and the diagnostic inspection of semiconductor wafers. Both are closely associated with the fusion program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and elsewhere.

Theragenics(TM) Corporation of Atlanta, Georgia, USA (www.theragenics.com), announced that it is operating Plasma Separation Process (PSP) equipment at Oak Ridge as a commercial scale technique for producing large quantities of a wide range of enriched isotopes for use in medical therapeutics, ...

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