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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Isotopes Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: INIS) announces completion of a private placement on October 29, 2010 that will immediately provide the company with approximately $5.8 million in cash to continue its efforts on the licensing and design of its planned environmentally friendly, green technology uranium de-conversion and fluorine extraction processing facility. Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. served as the sole placement...
Moving Closer to Understanding the Island of StabilityA team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114. Starting with the creation of a new isotope of the yet-to-be-named element 114, the researchers observed successive emissions of alpha particles that yielded new isotopes of copernicium (element 112), darmstadtium (element 110), hassium (element 108),...
MDS Nordion secures exclusive Mo-99 supply through framework agreementOTTAWA, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - MDS Nordion, a leading provider of products and services to the global health science market, today announced it has entered into a framework agreement with The Open Joint Stock Company "Isotope" (Isotope), the authorized subsidiary of Rosatom State Corporation, to explore and define areas of collaboration in the field of supply, marketing and sale of isotopes produced in...
Recent puzzling observations of tiny variations in nuclear decay rates have led some to question the science of using decay rates to determine the relative ages of rocks and organic materials. Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with researchers from Purdue University, the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Wabash College, tested the hypothesis that solar radiation might affect the rate at which radioactive elements decay...
Recent puzzling observations of tiny variations in nuclear decay rates have led some to question the science of using decay rates to determine the relative ages of rocks and organic materials. Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with researchers from Purdue University, the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Wabash College, tested the hypothesis that solar radiation might affect the rate at which radioactive elements decay...
Twenty million medical scans and treatments are done each year that require radioactive isotopes, and scientists today described a global shortage of these life-saving materials that could jeopardize patient care and drive-up health care costs. They spoke at a symposium at one of the opening sessions of the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.Medical isotopes are minute amounts of radioactive substances used to diagnose and treat a variety of diseases. Isotopes injected...
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- International Isotopes Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: INIS) announces completion of an agreement with URENCO USA to provide assistance to International Isotopes on its Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and State of New Mexico permitting processes. INIS submitted a license application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in December 2009 for the construction of its planned depleted uranium de-conversion facility, and has been working...
Scientists fear that a global shortage of radioactive isotopes, required for the 20 million medical scans and treatments done each year, could jeopardize patient care and drive up health care costs.Medical isotopes are used to diagnose and treat a variety of diseases. Isotopes injected into the body can enable doctors to determine whether the heart has adequate blood flow or whether cancer has spread to a patient's bones. Isotopes help diagnose gallbladder, kidney, and brain disorders. When...
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Isotopes Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: INIS) announces financial results for the second quarter and six-months ended June 30, 2010. Revenue for the three-month period ended June 30, 2010, was $1,485,293, as compared to $1,485,599 for the same period in 2009, a decrease of $306 or less than 1%. Revenue for the six-month period ended June 30, 2010, was $2,594,844, as compared to $3,185,269 for the same period in 2009, a...
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Isotopes Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: INIS) announces further progress in its plans to license and construct the nation's first commercial depleted uranium de-conversion and fluorine extraction processing facility near Hobbs, New Mexico. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has conducted its public scoping meeting on the project as part of its license and environmental impact statement review process. The meeting was...
