CNA Nuclear Energy Handbook 2009 - Teach Nuclear

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Advancing Global Health
• Through a partnership with the TRIUMF Laboratory and MDS Nordion,
medical isotopes are also produced by three cyclotrons on the University of
British Columbia campus. Radioisotopes are also produced at McMaster
University in Ontario.
• Canada supplies 60% of the world’s cobalt-60 used to sterilize more than
40% of the world’s single-use medical supplies. This technology is also used
to sterilize a vast array of consumer products, such as food packaging
materials and cosmetics.
• Canada’s cobalt-60 is produced in nuclear reactors at Bruce Power and
Pickering in Ontario and Gentilly-2 in Quebec.
• Canada is a leader in the development of gamma technology used to
eliminate food-borne pathogens, such as harmful E.Coli and Salmonella, to
make food safer and as a quarantine treatment for fruits and vegetables to
reduce post-harvest losses caused by spoilage, pest infestation and
contamination.
• MDS Nordion is collaborating with the University of Ottawa Heart Institute
(UOHI), Canada’s largest cardiovascular health centre, to establish a Molecular
Imaging Centre of Excellence to advance cardiology research. The new centre
enables the two organizations to collaborate on joint cardiology research,
using the latest in molecular imaging technology.
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