Nuclear Medicine Technologies for Global Health - Proposals for Strengthening Nuclear Medicine Globally Whilst Minimising

He introduced the idea of a theoretical small-scale medical isotope reactor that might be designed and built in the United Kingdom and a partner country for export to states in need of a resilient supply of short-lived medical isotopes to serve the growing health needs of their populations.1 3. [...] The objectives of this latest roundtable were to address the concerns raised during the first roundtable, discuss the technological criteria required for such a technology to be exported without 1 For more information regarding PREMIER, and the discussion of the first roundtable, you can read the report here: . [...] One issue for the meeting was an assessment of future diagnostic procedures in the countries of the Global South: to what extent can reactor produced Tc-99m be expected to be the dominant requirement in the long term? Such considerations would need to be explored with end-users, perhaps as part of a future 2023/24 workshop. [...] The reactor would be shipped – enclosed and with the fuel – to willing countries, which does raise the question of the transport and the risk associated with it. [...] There would be an opportunity for that country to return the module for disposal in the UK, or in a partner country, at the end of its life if the host country so wished.