Perma-Fix Environmental Services Forges Partnership with Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
January 24, 2018 at 08:22 am
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Perma-Fix Environmental Services reported an agreement to collaborate with the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) to advance a variety of technologies including commercialization of Perma-Fix Medical, S.A.'s process to produce Technetium-99 (Tc-99m), a medical isotope. Under the agreement, the parties will work to advance a variety of Perma-Fix's nuclear technologies and processes in Italy. These projects include the production of Tc-99m utilizing the TRIGA RC-1 research reactor, made available by ENEA, and Perma-Fix's patented process, in order to address the global need for a safer, more reliable, more cost-effective and uranium-free production process. The organizations noted that following irradiation of materials in the TRIGA RC-1 research reactor, technetium generators will be supplied to nuclear medicine centers across Italy. It is anticipated that the quantities of medical isotopes produced by TRIGA in the Casaccia ENEA Center will be sufficient to supply a large percentage of the national requirements for Tc-99m.
Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. is an environmental and environmental technology know-how company. The Company operates through two segments: Treatment and Services. The Treatment Segment includes nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed waste, hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, processing, and disposal; and research and development (R&D) activities to identify, develop and implement innovative waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams. Its Services segment includes technical services, nuclear services and the Company-owned equipment calibration and maintenance laboratory that services, maintains, calibrates, and sources health physics, industrial hygiene (IH) and customized nuclear, environmental, and occupational safety and health (NEOSH) instrumentation. Its technical services provide professional radiological measurement and site survey of large government and commercial installations using advanced methods, technology, and engineering.