Launch HN: Atomic Alchemy (YC W19) – Manufacturing Nuclear Medicine

Atomic Alchemy will manufacture nuclear medicine and the radioactive materials used to make it, using several compact (~15MW thermal) nuclear reactors. I’ve always been interested in production and efficiency, and the issues currently plaguing nuclear medicine production have been of great interest to me all the way back to when I operated a reactor in college. The main failure in the supply chain is the fact that the entire world’s feedstock for nuclear medicine primarily comes from six government-run reactors, most of which are over 45 years old and will be retired in the next 10 years.

Source: news.ycombinator.com