Ep. 40 - Amanda Youker, Argonne National Lab

Episode Content:​

• Amanda's interest in chemistry and her work at a crime lab.  

• A breakdown of molybdenum 99 and technetium 99m.  

• Why metastable isotopes are useful for medical applications.  

• What are ligins?  

• From a security perspective, why it's in the US' interest to domestically produce molybdenum 99.  

• The traditional and nontraditional methods of producing molybdenum 99.  

• Tradeoffs of different production processes.  

• The Argonne Molybdenum Research Experiment.  

• Why precipitating uranium creates a hotspot.  

• How corrosion can be beneficial in producing uranium peroxide precipitate.  

• What's in store for the future.