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Bruce Power completes harvest of Cobalt-60 that will save lives through cancer treatments

Press releases may be edited for formatting or style | March 28, 2019 Molecular Imaging
Bruce Power has completed a harvest of medical-grade Cobalt-60, which will diagnose and treat brain and breast cancers.

The medical-grade Cobalt-60 has spent nearly two years in Bruce Power’s Unit 7 reactor, and will now be processed by Ottawa-based Nordion before being made available to the world’s medical community as it develops new ways to diagnose and treat cancer. One such way is Xcision’s GammaPod, which is a new solution that is designed to provide non-invasive treatments to patients, with the potential to shorten the course of radiotherapy and limit doses to the surrounding healthy tissue, including the whole breast, heart and lungs.

Medical-grade Cobalt-60 also powers the Gamma Knife, which is a non-invasive treatment for brain tumours. It focuses 200 beams of radiation on the site of the tumour, reducing impact to the healthy tissue that surrounds the site.
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“When it was announced the National Research Universal reactor at Chalk River was going to be retired in 2018, the medical community was worried there would be a shortage of life-saving medical isotopes,” said Mike Rencheck, Bruce Power’s President and CEO. “Bruce Power quickly developed a process to produce medical-grade Cobalt-60 in order to prevent a shortage of this cancer-fighting isotope. By doing so we are ensuring a long-term, stable supply of medical isotopes, advancing human health and saving lives.”

Learn more about how Bruce Power is powering Ontario’s economy, keeping the air clean to breathe, and helping to keep hospitals safe, while diagnosing and treating cancer in this new video.

Bruce Power remains committed to finding new medical isotopes to produce in its reactors, to help ensure a steady supply of life-saving isotopes for the world’s medical community, Rencheck added.


About Bruce Power
Formed in 2001, Bruce Power is an electricity company based in Bruce County, Ontario. We are powered by our people. Our 4,200 employees are the foundation of our accomplishments and are proud of the role they play in safely delivering clean, reliable, low-cost nuclear power to families and businesses across the province. Bruce Power has worked hard to build strong roots in Ontario and is committed to protecting the environment and supporting the communities in which we live.

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