WEBINAR Wed. April 1 2026: Do We Need Nuclear Power to Create Medical Isotopes? - with Gordon Edwards
Do We Need Nuclear Power to Create Medical Isotopes?
WEBINAR - open to all
Wed. April 1, 11 a.m. – noon ET
With Dr. Gordon Edwards Ph.D.
Moderated by Angela Bischoff
The importance of medical isotopes is often invoked to justify the existence of nuclear power reactors.
Medical isotopes are radioactive materials that are used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. But despite nuclear industry hype, the fact is that modern medicine has never depended on nuclear power reactors. Any isotopes (radioactive materials) that are considered medically useful have been either extracted from nature or have been produced in “particle accelerators” such as cyclotrons, or in research reactors that do not produce electricity.
In addition, medical procedures that do not involve radioactivity at all are increasingly preferred – they are often less costly and less hazardous, and do not leave a legacy of radioactive waste behind.
Learn the facts with independent nuclear expert, Dr. Gordon Edwards (Ph.D.) of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.
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