Opportunities and Approaches for Supplying Molybdenum-99 and Associated Medical Isotopes to Global Markets: Proceedings of a Symposium (2018)
Chapter: Appendix A: Agenda
Appendix A
Agenda
SYMPOSIUM DAY 1: MONDAY, JULY 17, 2017
International Atomic Energy Agency
Board Room A
M Building
| 9:00 | Opening Session |
| Welcome | |
Meera Venkatesh, International Atomic Energy Agency (5 min) | |
Christophe Xerri, International Atomic Energy Agency (5 min) | |
| Statement from the U.S. and Russian Academies | |
Stepan Kalmykov, co-chair, Russian Academy of Sciences (on behalf of the symposium organizing committees) (10 min) | |
| 9:20 | Plenary Session |
Moderator: Alexander Bychkov, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna | |
| Mo-99 production: Past, present, and future | |
Hedvig Hricak, co-chair, U.S. National Academies (on behalf of the symposium organizing committees) (10 min) | |
| Russia’s role in global molybdenum-99 supply | |
Alexey Vakulenko, JSC V/O IZOTOP, Russian Federation (20 min) | |
| Establishing and expanding nuclear medicine programs | |
Rodolfo Nuñez-Miller, International Atomic Energy Agency (10 min) | |
Wolfgang Weber, Memorial Sloan Kettering, United States (10 min) |
| Plenary session discussion (15 min) | |
| 10:30 | BREAK |
| 10:50 | Molybdenum-99 Supply Reliability: Session 1 |
Moderator: Jack Coffey, Enigma Biomedical Group | |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-Nuclear Energy Agency’s principles to address molybdneum-99 supply reliability and the organization’s global market demand and production capacity projections | |
Kath Smith, High-Level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes (15 min) | |
The European Commission’s efforts to evaluate the supply of medical radioisotopes | |
Margarida Goulart, European Commission (15 min) | |
Reactor schedule coordination for molybdenum-99 supply reliability | |
Bernard Ponsard, AIPES Reactors & Isotopes Working Group (15 min) | |
Investments in AREVA’s target production facility to improve long-term sustainable security of molybdenum-99 supply | |
Yann Guinard, AREVA, France (15 min) | |
| Session 1 discussion (20 min) | |
| 12:10 | Molybdenum-99 Supply: Session 2 (Part 1) |
Moderator: Rania Kosti, U.S. National Academies | |
Existing global suppliers: Current production and future plans | |
Roy Brown, Curium (10 min) | |
Michael Druce, ANSTO, Australia (10 min) | |
Gavin Ball, NTP, South Africa (10 min) | |
Jean-Michel Vanderhofstadt, IRE, Belgium (10 min) | |
| 12:50 | LUNCH |
| 14:30 | Molybdenum-99 Supply: Session 2 (Part 2) |
Moderator: Rania Kosti, U.S. National Academies | |
| New projects for regional or global molybdenum-99 supply | |
James Harvey, NorthStar, United States (10 min) | |
Katrina Pitas, SHINE, United States (10 min) | |
Carolyn Haass, Northwest Medical Isotopes, LLC, United States (10 min) | |
Carmen Bigles, Coquí Radio Pharmaceuticals, United States (10 min) | |
Matthew Lish, Flibe Energy, United States (10 min) | |
Hermen van der Lugt, PALLAS Reactor, Netherlands (10 min) | |
Oleg Kononov, Karpov Scientific Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Russian Federation (10 min) | |
Ken Buckley, TRIUMF, Canada (10 min) | |
Kennedy Mang’era, Canadian Isotope Innovations Corp. (10 min) | |
Jin Du, China Isotope & Radiation Corporation (10 min) |
Anupam Mathur, Department of Atomic Energy, India (10 min) | |
Ul-Jae Park, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (10 min) | |
Pablo Cristini, National Atomic Energy Commission, Argentina (10 min) | |
Mostafa Abd Elaal, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (10 min) | |
| Session 2 discussion (30 min) | |
| 17:30 | Late afternoon break and closing remarks |
(Participants move to MO2 Foyer) | |
| 19:30 | Adjourn symposium day 1 |
SYMPOSIUM DAY 2: TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2017
Board Room A
M Building
| 9:00 | Welcome |
Stepan Kalmykov, co-chair, Russian Academy of Sciences committee (on behalf of the two Academies) (5 min) | |
| 9:05 | Technical Considerations: Session 3 |
Moderator: Boris Zhuikov, Russian Academy of Sciences | |
Conversion to low enriched uranium-based molybdenum-99 production | |
Jean-Michel Vanderhofstadt, IRE, Belgium (10 min) | |
Roy Brown, Curium (10 min) | |
Gavin Ball, NTP, South Africa (10 min) | |
Vladimir Risovaniy, Rosatom, Russian Federation (10 min) | |
| Production expansion | |
Michael Druce, ANSTO, Australia (10 min) | |
Prospects for the use of activation of molybdenum for the production of technetium-99m generators | |
Victor Skuridin, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russian Federation (15 min) | |
| High-density low-enriched uranium targets production | |
Bertrand Stepnik, AREVA, France (15 min) | |
Kinam Kim, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (15 min) | |
| Session 3 discussion (20 min) | |
| 11:40 | BREAK |
| 12:00 | Regulatory Considerations: Session 4 |
Moderator: Joao Alberto Osso Junior, International Atomic Energy Agency | |
European Medicines Agency’s regulatory considerations | |
Brendan Cuddy, European Medicines Agency (20 min, pre-recorded) | |
Perspectives from Tc-99m generator manufacturers | |
Ira Goldman, Lantheus Medical Imaging, United States (10 min) | |
Roy Brown, Curium, Netherlands (10 min) | |
Perspectives from a nuclear pharmacy | |
David Pellicciarini, Cardinal Health, United States (15 min) | |
| Session 4 discussion (15 min) | |
| 13:15 | LUNCH |
| 14:30 | Economic Considerations: Session 5 |
Moderator: Charles Ferguson, Federation of American Scientists | |
| Molybdenum-99 supply economics | |
Jan Willem Velthuijsen, PwC Europe (20 min) | |
| Low-enriched uranium-based molybdenum-99 production | |
Gavin Ball, NTP (5 min) | |
Michael Druce, ANSTO (5 min) | |
| Session 5 discussion (25 min) | |
| 15:30 | BREAK |
| 15:50 | Chemical Processing and Waste Management: Session 6 |
Moderator: Sergey Yudintsev, Russian Academy of Sciences | |
Chemical processing and waste management following neutron activation | |
Evgeniy Nesterov, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russian Federation (10 min) | |
Development of a novel dry chemical uranium molybdenum separation: Research for a future efficient Mo-99 extraction process | |
Riane Stene, FRM-II, Germany (10 min) | |
Waste management in HEU versus LEU-based molybdenum-99 production | |
Jean-Michel Vanderhofstadt, IRE, Belgium (15 min) | |
Synroc Technology for the Management of molybdenum-99 Waste | |
Bruce Begg, ANSTO, Australia (10 min) | |
Recycling processed LEU for reuse as target material | |
Carolyn Haass, Northwest Medical Isotopes, LLC, United States (10 min) | |
| Session 6 discussion (30 min) | |
| 17:20 | Closing remarks |
Stepan Kalmykov, co-chair, Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| 17:30 | Adjourn symposium |
