I'll wait for DU4 to discuss this paper.

[NNadir]

(I'm looking forward to the return of exponents in text. I've missed them.)

The paper in question:

Feasible Strategy for Large-Scale Production of 224Ra as a Promising α-Emitting Therapy Radionuclide Long Qiu, Jianrong Wu, Ning Luo, Qian Xiao, Junshan Geng, Lingting Xia, Feize Li, Jiali Liao, Yuanyou Yang, Jinsong Zhang, and Ning Liu Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2023 62 (35), 14001-14011

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I absolutely love finding uses, via transmutation series, uses for "waste" nuclides. It's been a long time since radium was isolated from uranium ores, and we do have tailings.

(For the record, we have at Oak Ridge, a viable supply of Th-228; hopefully we don't get stupid and bury it.)