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In late January Paris hosted the first meeting of the third mandate of the OECD High Level Group on the Security of Supply of Medical Radioisotopes, especially Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).

The certification has been conducted by the German company DQS GmbH. According to the certification’s results, JSC Isotope has received the certificate of its quality management system’s conformity to the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2008 in the spheres of commercial operations and handling with radioactive materials, radiation sources and associated equipment, conduction of radiation control and safety expertise in the field of nuclear energy usage.

The preparations for Silicum-28 isotopes’ production have started at JSC “PA “Electrochemical Plant” opening the third stage of Kilogram-2 project (the creation of a new kilogram mass standard).

At the final stage of the presidential project “The creation of radioisotope Mo-99 production” JSC Isotope has completed certification of the equipment at JSC “SSC RIAR” in a specialized system designed for certification of equipment, products and technologies for nuclear units, radioactive sources and storages. This certification was necessary to place in operation the production assets at the State Scientific Center – Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (JSC “SSC RIAR”) based in Dimitrovgrad.

JSC Isotope has for the first time delivered with its own specialized transport radioactive sources with Cobalt-60 and Cesium-137 to the European Union. The first country where JSC Isotope got the license for sources’ transportation became Lithuania.

JSC Isotope together with LLC “Sibmer” has elaborated a specialized technology for replacement of a radioactive source with Cobalt-60 (with the unit of activity of more than 8 000 Ci) in gamma-ray teletherapy units TERAGAM and TERABALT.

JSC Isotope together with FSUE “PA “MAYAK” has organized an exposition at the International Meeting on Radiation Processing (IMPR) held in Shanghai on October 4-8, 2013.

JSC Isotope together with the enterprises of “Rosatom” State Corporation demonstrated an exposition at the EANM 2013 exhibition that was a part of the 26th annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and took place in Lyon (France) from 19 to 23 October, 2013.

JSC Isotope is going to take part in the 17th International Meeting on Radiation Processing (IMRP) that will be held in Shanghai on 4-8 November, 2013.

JSC Isotope together with JSC “PA Electrochemical Plant”, the Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances of the Russian Academy of Sciences and German partners is working on implementing international project Avogadro 2.