Nuclide Library
Name /
Shortname
Half-Life Usage / Remarks
Iridium
74 d
Industrially used material
Temporarily implanted in wire form for use as an internal radiotherapy
source in cancer treatment. Also used to test the integrity of pipeline
welds, boilers and aircraft parts.
Lutetium
6d 17h
Medically used material
Used experimentally in targeted radionuclide therapy for neur-
oendocrine tumors. May be used to mask Plutonium.
Manganese
312 d
Industrially used material
Used to study and predict emmission characteristics of heavy metal pol-
lutants within the outlow of waste water from mining operations.
Molybdenum
2d18h
Industrially used material
Used for generating
99m
Tc.
Neptunium
2.14 Ma
Special Nuclear Material
No major commerical uses except in the production of
238
Pu.
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