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.