Medical Isotopes Cobalt 60

Cobalt-60 | Uses, Half-Life, & Facts | Britannica

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Cobalt-60 is the longest-lived radioactive isotope of cobalt, with a half-life of 5.27 years. It is produced by irradiating …

CDC Radiation Emergencies | Radioisotope Brief: Cobalt …

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Co-60 is used medically for radiation therapy as implants and as an external source of radiation exposure. It is used industrially in leveling gauges and to x-ray welding seams …

Nuclear Energy Innovating Lifesaving Medical Technologies

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Emma Derr. June 9, 2022. Nuclear power plants produce a vital resource in the global fight against COVID-19: Cobalt-60. This powerful isotope has sterilized …

Radionuclide Basics: Cobalt-60 | US EPA

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Radioisotopes in Medicine - World Nuclear …

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Caesium-131, palladium-103, and radium-223 are also used for brachytherapy, all being Auger (soft) X-ray emitters, and having half-lives of 9.7 days, 17 days, and 11.4 days, …

Cobalt-60 - Bruce Power

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Cobalt-60 is an isotope that emits gamma rays essential to the medical community for cancer treatments, as well as sterilization of medical devices. Sterilization Cobalt-60 …

OPG harvests life-saving medical isotope at Pickering …

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Pickering, ON – Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has completed another harvest of Cobalt-60 (Co-60) at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, continuing a …

Pickering Nuclear produces steady supply …

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In the medical field, Cobalt-60 is used to sterilize surgical pre-packaged medical instruments, implantable devices, syringes, and medical gowns. The …

Isotopes and Medical Innovation - Bruce …

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Bruce Power’s Cobalt-60 is used in Gamma irradiation to sterilize single-use medical devices and equipment such as syringes, gloves, implantable devices, and surgical gowns …

Medical isotopes - Canadian Nuclear …

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Cobalt-60 is the most common isotope used in radiation therapy. Hospitals also use colbalt-60 to sterilize medical equipment, including gowns, gloves, masks, syringes and …