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Recycling old Radium into Cancer Drugs

An IAEA expert mission was deployed to Suva, Fiji, to support the recovery and transportation of radium-226 transport to the USA, where the sources will be used as a feedstock to produce actinium-225, an alpha-emitting isotope which is increasingly used in targeted cancer treatments.

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