Europe faces further Mo-99 supply woes

December 22, 2008 Europe faces further Mo-99 supply woes By Paula Gould The production of molybdenum-99 at the High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands, is unlikely to restart in February 2009 as had been planned, according to the facility's operators, the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group. The HFR, one of two main sources of Mo-99 in Europe, has been out of action since mid-August when gas bubbles were found escaping into the reactor's cooling system. The cause of the leak was subsequently traced to corrosion between an external pipe and its concrete casing.

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